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After Arizona was granted statehood in 1912, the growth of Phoenix exploded from the downtown epicenter. By the 1930s, a modern skyline composed of various commercial buildings began to take shape and Downtown was a dense, compact and pedestrian friendly city characterized by Victorian buildings and ground-floor retail. [5]
Jefferson/1st Avenue station and Washington/Central Avenue station, also collectively known as Downtown Phoenix and City Hall, is a pair of light rail stations on the Valley Metro Rail in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is the sixteenth stop westbound and the thirteenth stop eastbound on the initial 20-mile (32 km) starter line.
Arizona Center was designed by The Rouse Company (on its festival marketplace model, which worked to great success in other cities) and opened in the fall of 1990 to great fanfare and high expectations, as it was considered one of the original components of the ongoing downtown revitalization efforts in Phoenix taking place since the early 1990s.
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State Routes 87, 85, and 74 connect Phoenix with other areas of the Valley and Arizona. [7] The street system in Phoenix (and some of its suburbs) is laid out in a grid system, with most roads oriented either north–south or east–west, and the zero point of the grid being the intersection of Central Avenue and Washington Street. [7]
3rd Street/Jefferson station and 3rd Street/Washington station, collectively known as Convention Center/Ballpark/Arena, are a pair of light rail stations on Valley Metro Rail in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. They are the fifteenth stop westbound and the fourteenth stop eastbound on the initial 20-mile (32 km) rail segment.
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Center Street in 1908. Central Avenue was originally named Center Street upon Phoenix's founding with the surrounding north–south roads named after Indian tribes. [3] The original Churchill Addition of 1877, covering a small area north of Van Buren Street to what is presently Roosevelt Street, was the first recorded plat showing Central Avenue with its present name. [4]