Nicole Gutierrez
Nicole Gutierrez is a journalist at ABC15 Arizona who focuses on Things To Do coverage, telling tightly framed stories about where people can go, what is opening next, and how local experiences fit into everyday life. Her entertainment beat centers on family-friendly events, new restaurants and retail concepts, and the atmosphere around big moments, with reporting that blends practical details and visual storytelling. Across monthly roundups, opening-day features, and on-the-ground photo galleries, she tracks how businesses, sports and community spaces evolve across Arizona.
Things To Do rundowns across the Valley
Gutierrez is part of ABC15 Arizona’s Things To Do team, producing recurring specials that walk audiences through upcoming events, exhibits and community gatherings. Her monthly roundups frame the calendar with clear themes - such as cooler-weather outdoor fun in October or cool outdoor events and new exhibits in June - and then point to specific ways to spend time with family.
She assembles list-style guides for experiences like indoor date night ideas that move beyond dinner and drinks, making it easy to scan options while still including enough description to understand each choice. Seasonal coverage extends to curated lists of Christmas pop-up bars, where she calls out festive drinks, decorations and venues that capture the holiday mood while inviting suggestions for additional spots. In these pieces she stays close to logistics, noting when and where events take place, and what will be different about the experience compared with routine nights out.
New restaurants, chains and retail openings
A large share of Gutierrez’s coverage follows new restaurants, chains and retail concepts as they enter Arizona or expand across the Valley. She reports on highly anticipated openings such as Arizona’s first Buc-ee’s in Goodyear, taking audiences inside the space ahead of launch and showing merchandise, food options and the scale of the travel center. Her work on business growth includes profiles of local ventures like Let’s Toast, where she highlights the owners’ path to opening their first brick-and-mortar store, as well as national brands such as Bojangles bringing their first location to Gilbert.
She regularly covers chains and grocers moving into new neighborhoods, including Vallarta Supermarkets’ first Phoenix store, new Daiso discount store locations, and the Emersa observatory-inspired cocktail bar debuting in Buckeye. Gutierrez also tracks openings tied to travel and infrastructure, with stories on new offerings at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and expansion plans from fast-casual brands like Fazoli’s and breweries like Pedal Haus as they add Valley locations. Her reporting on the Fire ’n’ Ice Sports Arena focuses on the scale of the multimillion-dollar investment, the mix of ice rinks, courts, education and hospitality planned for the complex, and interview-driven detail about why backers are pursuing the project.
Across these business stories she balances promotional excitement with concrete information, emphasizing opening timelines, locations and what is distinct about each concept for local residents.
Sports events and fan experiences
Beyond entertainment and retail, Gutierrez documents the atmosphere around major sports events, especially high-stakes baseball games in Phoenix. She produces photo-driven pieces from playoff matchups and World Series games at Chase Field, capturing fan signs, costumes, interactions with players and the way crowds respond inning by inning.
Her galleries from NLDS Game 3 and World Series Game 5 focus on scenes on and off the field, from special menu items and rally towels to behind-the-scenes images of ABC15 sports staff and interviews with team executives. This sports-adjacent work connects to her coverage of new sports facilities like the Fire ’n’ Ice Sports Arena, underscoring how investment in venues and fan experiences shapes the broader entertainment landscape.
Community features and local impact
Gutierrez’s beat also includes community-focused stories that show how economic and policy shifts play out in everyday life. She reports on nonprofits in South Phoenix that face surging demand as thousands of residents lose SNAP benefits, following the operations of food box distribution centers and the long lines that form before dawn.
Her pieces on grocery and retail expansion, from Vallarta Supermarkets to other neighborhood-level openings, highlight both consumer excitement and the practical impact of new options in areas that have lacked them. Coverage of developments such as Virgin Galactic’s spaceship facility in Mesa sits alongside business and events reporting, tying innovation and jobs to the changing landscape of the region.
Taken together, these community stories keep her entertainment coverage grounded in real consequences, linking fun things to do with access, affordability and the evolving map of local services.
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