Phoenix: County revamps jail plans; Compromise still gets cool reception

by Pat Kossan, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 1999.

QUOTE: “Maricopa County is tempering its plans for a downtown Phoenix jail complex, bowing to the city’s demands to save Jackson Street’s old buildings and its potential as an arts and cultural center. The county’s new proposal, which has yet to be approved by the Board of Supervisors, keeps the jail and a six-level parking garage on the drawing board. But the morgue will move, and an old railroad depot [the Santa Fe Freight House] will be restored instead of torn down…”