By james art 
PHOENIX — Many buildings around the Phoenix area will be lit up Friday to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease.
The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America says more than 1,300 locations around the world will be lit up, mostly teal, on Nov. 1, marking the start of Alzheimer’s Awareness Month.
Participating Phoenix area attractions include:
- Urban landscape
- Chase Field
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport – SkyTrain Station
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport – Car Rental Center Station
- Phoenix City Hall
- Governor’s office building – Executive Tower
- Orpheus Theater
- Phoenix Convention Center
- Mayo Clinic (Phoenix and Scottsdale locations)
- Hyatt Regency Phoenix
- Harkins Theater – Camelview at Fashion Square (Scottsdale)
- Symphony Hall
- Heroes Lake (Glendale)
- Bonsell Lake (Glendale)
- Chandler Center for the Arts
- Tempe City Hall
- Scottsdale sunrise
- Sunrise on Chandler
- Gilbert’s Sunrise
This is the 11th year of the Light the World Blue campaign.
The foundation says 151,000 Arizonans are among nearly seven million Americans living with Alzheimer’s, a number expected to double by 2060, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
