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Phoenix dedicates downtown street as Martin L. Schultz Way, honors longtime civic leader
Summary
City leaders and community partners gathered May 20 to dedicate a stretch of downtown as Martin L. Schultz Way, praising Schultz's decades of work on transportation, bioscience and human services initiatives that shaped Phoenix's redevelopment.
Phoenix officials and community leaders gathered May 20 to dedicate a downtown street as Martin L. Schultz Way, celebrating the longtime civic leader’s role in transportation planning, bioscience development and the creation of a human services campus.
The dedication ceremony, held in the city’s bioscience core, featured remarks from a councilwoman who helped lead the city’s transportation initiatives and credited Schultz with advising multiple mayors. “So it seems fitting that we are honoring you with transportation infrastructure,” the councilwoman said, noting Schultz’s roles on ballot measures and infrastructure projects that funded city streets and light rail.
Zach Wallace, chief of staff to Vice Mayor Hodge Washington, read the vice mayor’s remarks and thanked Schultz for mentoring elected officials and staff. “Naming the street in your honor is a meaningful reminder of what dedicated public service looks like,” Wallace said on the vice mayor’s behalf.
Speakers from the bioscience community and nonprofit sector highlighted Schultz’s work on the Arizona Bioscience Roadmap, his decade of leadership on the steering committee and a record of board service. Scarlet Spring, executive director of Phoenix Bioscience Core, said Schultz helped secure local and state support during early efforts to grow the bioscience industry.
Moe Stein, partner emeritus at HKS Architects, recalled Schultz’s role in downtown strategy and the push to build anchor institutions. “We were able to get it done because… Marty,” Stein said, describing coalition building that led to projects such as the human services campus.
In brief remarks accepting the honor, Martin L. Schultz emphasized collective effort over personal credit and urged continued civic commitment. Recounting years of work on transportation and downtown projects, Schultz said the accomplishments reflected many people’s labor and leadership.
The ceremony included acknowledgments from nonprofit leaders and public servants and concluded without any formal council votes. The new sign for Martin L. Schultz Way stands in an area speakers said reflects Schultz’s work connecting transportation, education and economic development.
The city did not announce additional policy actions tied to the dedication.
