SkySong is a great place to work and live.
SkySong has its own cultural life, with special lectures and performances on site by world-class speakers and performers visiting ASU, as well as symposia, workshops, exhibits and events that appeal to the creative and knowledge workers at SkySong.
SkySong is designed as a mixed-use, globally innovative business community with cafes, shops, ethnic restaurants, and business services on the street level and office and corporate spaces on the floors above. Open spaces are shaded, beautifully landscaped and inviting for walks, outdoor meetings and working outside the office.
Greater Phoenix has a lively Arts and Culture scene
The Greater Phoenix metropolitan region is full of vibrant international communities and a huge variety of restaurants, arts and culture. Opportunities abound - from beautiful auditoriums filled for Broadway shows to museums to inspire you, from playhouses and concert halls to art walks and festivals. Greater Phoenix has more than 150 art galleries!
Scottsdale is the center of the arts community, with over 125 galleries of its own. Its galleries offer a variety of art including a selection of Western art rivaled only by world-renowned Santa Fe, New Mexico. Other Scottsdale arts highlights are Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesen West, the Scottsdale Artwalk, and more than 25 art and music festivals throughout the year.
The region offers a wide variety of museums such as the Heard Museum of Native Culture and Arts, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Doll and Toy Museum, Arizona Science Center, The Bead Museum, Challenger Space Center, Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park.
ASU's acoustically renowned Gammage Auditorium, the Phoenix Symphony, Childsplay Theater, Cricket Pavilion, Arizona Theatre Company, Ballet Arizona, Celebrity Theater, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, and the Dodge Theatre are just a few of the performance venues in the Greater Phoenix area.
There are annual festivals for everyone, including: Smithsonian Magazine's CultureFest, Las Noches de las Luminarias, Carefree Fine Art and Wine Festival, Barrett Jackson Collector Car Auction, Scottsdale Fine Art and Chocolate Festival, Arabian Horse Show, Parada del Sol Concert and Rodeo, Tempe Festival of the Arts, Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market, Scottsdale Culinary Festival, Annual Celebration of Fine Art...and there are so many more!
Why do we love living in the Phoenix area?
With sunshine over 330 days a year and an annual average high temperature of 84 degrees, we get out and enjoy the gorgeous weather. If you are looking for outdoor recreation, you'll find it here: the largest municipal park in the world is right in town, 200 notable golf courses (including ASU's own Karsten Golf Course) and 1,130 tennis courts, along with miles of canal trails provide all the adventure you're looking for: golfing, hiking, biking, fishing, rock climbing, camping, swimming, water skiing, skateboarding, and more. Numerous recreational sports leagues such as football (soccer), cricket and rugby leagues are active and competitive through the year. In addition, lakes are nearby, and mountains with winter skiing are only 2-3 hours away,
Located in the middle of the beautiful Sonoran Desert, we have postcard-worthy sunsets almost every night. Sure it gets hot in the summer, but it's a dry heat! If you want to get away, you can drive for an hour and be standing in the mountain pines. Arizona has just about every type of scenery you can imagine - sorry, though, no polar ice caps. Did we mention the Grand Canyon is less than 4 hours away? And, outside of the occasional flash flood warning, Phoenix does not have natural disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes or earthquakes.
Being in a university atmosphere, there is plenty to do at night and on the weekends! Tempe has an exciting downtown and night life enhanced by ASU's fine arts presence, and Scottsdale is renowned for its arts and resorts. Phoenix has a vibrant downtown corridor, historical neighborhoods and a revitalization project in conjunction with the ASU campus being built downtown. Each Valley city has a personality of its own and much to offer.
We can afford to live here. The median price of a new single-family house in the Greater Phoenix area is $218,000 and the resale price average is $203,000. That would buy a tiny condo in San Diego or Denver. The Scottsdale school system is one of the best in the country, as well.
Many of us are huge sports fans, and we love our teams! Of course the ASU teams are our personal favorites, but there are also professional teams to cheer on: baseball, basketball (men's and women's teams), football, hockey, arena football. Three pro golf tournaments make regular stops in Phoenix, nine major league baseball teams hold spring training here, NASCAR races at Phoenix International Raceway, dragon boat races at Tempe Town Lake and the annual Rock and Roll Marathon are other events to watch for.
And, of course, we love living in the Phoenix area because ASU is here!