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Karl's Quality Bakery closed after 30 years, Mary Coyle's Ice Cream after 70. These longstanding spots are among metro Phoenix's recent restaurant closings.

The developer is moving forward to obtain land for the concept.

It's just the latest change amid what some are calling gentrification at the expense of artists.

Get ready for another round of Roosevelt Row musical chairs: Restauranteur Julian Wright is bringing a trio of food and drink options to the monOrchid building, a place where change has been the only constant since developer True North Studio bought the property at 214 East Roosevelt Street just over two years ago. Built by Del Webb in the late 1930s, the former warehouse became a staple of the downtown arts scene after commercial photographer Wayne Rainey bought it during the late ‘90s and turned it into a mixed-use creative space. Rainey sold the property to True North Studio for $3.5 mi...

"The cocktails and the food are both based around the simplicity of those times," Hein says, "with a modern twist." Stepping off the wood-paneled elevator, guests are greeted at the bar's entrance by a picture of Teddy himself, hung between two leather chairs. The cement walls and exposed pipes of the basement are complemented with hand-crafted wooden pieces and marble table-tops, completing the bootlegger vibe. There's a fireplace, too, and a collection of vintage books (Teddy was a big reader). A portrait of Theodore Roosevelt at the entrance. Kyla Hein Hein used old-timey bartender Jerr...