Apr2021
El Charro & Barrio Bread Join Forces to Create “Barrio Charro”
By Matt Sterner | Photo Courtesy of Barrio Charro on Facebook “TUCSON MUST KEEP COOKING” Local baker and owner of Barrio Bread, Don Guerra, chef Carlotta Flores of the Si Charro restaurants are teaming up to open Barrio Charro. The two Tucsonans,...
Apr2021
Neapolitan Pizza Restaurant Falora Partners With Baker, Launches House-Made Pasta
By Jackie Tran | Photo by Jackie Tran NEW PARTNER TRAVIS EVANS JOINS THE TEAM. Just shy of seven years ago, Ari Shapiro opened Falora in midtown Tucson with a minimalist menu showcasing Neapolitan pizza. The restaurant has maintained...
Apr2021
Barrio Bread is Creating a Culture, One Loaf at a Time
By Lee Allen, Special to Tucson Local Media Johnny Appleseed was a folk hero of the 1800s, a traveling environmentalist on a mission who planted apple orchards along his trek through the American Midwest. Artisanal baker and entrepreneur Don Guerra doesn’t...
Aug2016
Tucson Becomes an Unlikely Food Star
By KIM SEVERSON – The New York Times | Photo by Chris Hinkle TUCSON — There are food deserts, those urban neighborhoods where finding healthful food is nearly impossible, and then there is Tucson. When the rain comes down hard on a hot summer...
Aug2016
Barrio Bread to open retail store at Broadway Village
By Kristen Cook Arizona Daily Star, photo by Mike Christy Hey, Barrio Bread fans, consider this your ultimate bread alert. Artisan baker Don Guerra’s loaves — which are available at different pickup points for customers who’ve signed up for...
Aug2016
Revival on a Roll
Broadway Village Mixes Hip & Historic by Monica Surfaro Spigelman No commercial architecture in this city’s tradition-loving heart embodies the Josias Thomas Joesler style more than iconic Broadway Village, designed for Catalina Foothills developers...
Aug2016
Bisbee Breakfast Club expands in Tucson
By Luis F. Carrasco Arizona Daily Star, photo by Ron Medvescek It’s a year of expansion for Bisbee Breakfast Club. The restaurant, which opened in Bisbee in 2005, will have two new locations in Tucson by the end of the year: BBC Sunrise launched last...
Mar2016
Natural Grocers opening at Broadway Village in Tucson
By David Wichner Arizona Daily Star, photo by Mamta Popat Colorado-based Natural Grocers will open its third Tucson store on Tuesday, March 22, at Broadway Village, 3016 E. Broadway. The new store, the company’s seventh in Arizona, will open at 8 a.m....
Jan2016
Broadway Village Turns 76, Continues to Evolve
Vanessa Barchfield, Arizona Public Media, photo: AZPM Staff Country Club Road is in the center of Tucson today, but it was in the outskirts of town in 1939, the year that Swiss architect Josias Joesler and developers John and Helen Murphey broke ground...
Apr2015
Shopping Centers Today – Center Stage
Aging Gracefully After 76 Years, Tucson’s Broadway Village Still Enchants by Barbara Thau Some shopping centers get older without ever going out of date. One such is Broadway Village, built in 1939 in Tucson, Ariz., in the Spanish Colonial style....
Jan2015
Broadway Village turns 75 with a new grocery anchor
Hillary Davis, Inside Tucson Business The iconic Broadway Village shopping center is celebrating the big seven-five with a new organic supermarket. Natural Grocers is set to occupy a roughly 15,000 square-foot anchor space in the historic midtown landmark...
Jan2015
Broadway Village Turns 75
TUCSON, ARIZ. – Broadway Village, heralded by local historians as Arizona’s first shopping center and one of Tucson’s most iconic architectural treasures, has quietly turned 75. Local owners plan a festive celebration of the three‐quarter‐century...