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Mills Ave., Tempe, Arizona

Mill Ave is a beautiful street in Tempe full of restaurants, shops, and bars. You can find antiques at shops like 'Those Were The Days'. There is lots of shopping, to quote the official website, 'With nearly 60 different retailers, downtown Tempe offers visitors the variety of a mall while providing a unique, outdoor shopping experience. Shopper favorites such as Urban Outfitters, Bath and Body Works and Sunglass Hut maintain locations in the downtown. Meanwhile longtime local favorites like Yucatecan Imports, Urban Angels and Headquarters provide unique stores where shoppers can find a variety of interesting merchandise. '

There are great restaurants on Mill Ave, like PF Changs, RA Sushi and Ziggys. Mill Ave is also full of characters. On a weekend night you can see street performers and musicians. Crazy people hang out there, like the Mill Ave Food Critic, a homeless man who cons people out of money by giving restaurant reviews and cons businesses out of free food by threatening them with bad reviews.

At the tip of the street is Tempe Town Lake and nearby are both Arizona State University and Arizona Mills Mall, so you may want to add them to your Tempe itinerary. Although you can't compare it to the nightlife in a place like Rush Street in Chicago or the West End in Dallas, Mill Ave is safe and it is also warm all winter long. When you are in Phoenix, make sure and visit.

Workers changing the America West Corp Headquarter's logo to the newly announced merged with US Airways.

Tempe Town Lake

Arizona State University

ASU consists of three anchor campuses. The main campus, located in Tempe, has approximately 43,000 students and offers 86 undergraduate, 97 master's and 52 doctoral degree programs.

Arizona State is a member of the Pacific-Ten University division with many competitive athletic teams, not to mention intramurals. The men's baseball team is ranked number four, and the women's softball team is ranked number six.

Talk about a good location - ASU Main is located in the heart of the city. There are many attractions within a small radius of the campus; the newly developed Tempe Town Lake and Arizona Mills Mall are nearby. Another perk at ASU is their golf course.

All these great amenities come to about $15,000 a year for out-of-state tuition, room and board (in-state is $7,600).

Sun Devil Stadium

One of the most aesthetic, dynamic, innovative and beautiful collegiate stadiums in the nation, Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium has played host to some of the best football games for more than four decades.

It has hosted Arizona State University football games since 1958, including the game on Sept. 21, 1996, when the playing surface was named Frank Kush Field as ASU upset top-ranked Nebraska 19-0 . It has hosted three national championships - Notre Dame versus West Virginia in 1988, Nebraska versus Florida in 1996 and Tennessee versus Florida State in 1999. And it has hosted the NFL's ultimate showcase - the 1996 Super Bowl, when the Dallas Cowboys pulled out a close win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The facility, regarded since 1958 as one of the nation's outstanding collegiate football facilities, also boasts a spectacular, second-to-none setting.