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Posts Tagged ‘Historic Preservation Office’

City, Valley Metro to conduct historic streetscape study

August 20, 2008

[Source: Barbara Stocklin, City of Phoenix] – Staff of the City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office met with Valley Metro’s light rail staff and consultants to map out an historic streetscape study that the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) is requiring Valley Metro to complete as partial mitigation for the light rail project and [...]

Renovations begin on downtown Phoenix Luhrs complex

August 13, 2008

[Source: Barbara Stocklin, City of Phoenix] – The City of Phoenix continues to coordinate with Hansji Urban, Ltd, the owners of the historic Luhrs complex on the south side of Jefferson Street between 1st and Central Avenues regarding their rehabilitation work. 
The street-facing historic windows on floors 2 through 7 of the Luhrs Building have been [...]

View downtown Phoenix’s historic properties

August 12, 2008

Thanks to the City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office, find all of downtown Phoenix’s historic properties between 7th Avenue to 7th Street, McDowell to Buckeye Roads.  This map — Downtown Phoenix Historic Properties — is intended to identify above-ground historic properties only (not below-ground archaeological resources).

Grand Ave.’s Paper Heart may beat again

August 6, 2008

[Source: Barbara Stocklin, City of Phoenix] — Representatives of the city’s Historic Preservation Office, Development Services Department, and Office of Customer Advocacy met with Martin Lerma, owner of 750 Grand Avenue, to discuss rehabilitation plans for his property.  The property, most recently the Paper Heart Gallery, was built in 1954-55 as an automobile dealership for Quebedeaux Chevrolet.
Designed by Los [...]

National Trust officials tour Valley for possible 2012 conference

August 4, 2008

Kathy Adams and Lori Feinman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation flew into town last week to view Phoenix’s convention facilities; tour selected historic sites and neighborhoods in Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe; and visit with area preservation advocates to determine Phoenix’s ability to host the 2012 National Preservation Conference.  Meeting them at Sky Harbor [...]

Rehab work re-starts on Phoenix’s historic Morin House

August 1, 2008

[Source: City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office] – Work has begun again on the Morin House, a historic relocated house now located at 621 N. 5th Avenue in the Roosevelt Historic District.  Previously, the City Council approved bond funds to rehabilitate the house at its new site but worked stopped several months ago when new [...]