A one-story former fire station in Phoenix may see new life as a full-service, upscale restaurant.
City officials are looking at the possibility of keeping intact, but transforming, the 4,700 square foot brick building, which is located at 1130 North First Street on the south side of the Margaret T. Hance Park.
The repurposing is part of a larger effort to revitalize the Hance Park area and includes a Request for Proposals recently issued by the city for ideas on how to reuse the structure.
The fire station was opened in the summer of 1951, but has not been used by the Phoenix Fire Department for several years now.
The City of Phoenix has additionally made plans to host a public event inviting any number of businesses to present suggestions on redeveloping the fire station. That event, officially called the Firehouse Fastptich, will be held on August 12.
Formerly known as Fire Station Number 4, the facility sits on a 26,500 square foot site.
The greater Margaret T. Hance Park Revitalization Project, a public/private partnership, is seeing large segments of the popular park rebuilt and newly landscaped.
By Garry Boulard