Arizona Rail Passenger Association

Angela Cara Pancrazio
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 13, 2006 12:00 AM For more than two decades, the city has eyed the potential of Phoenix’s Union Station. With all of its space and its Mission Revival architecture, the 1923 rail-passenger center could be a city centerpiece filled with shops, restaurants and artists, officials have proposed.

That vision never came to fruition.

The last train carrying passengers pulled out of the station in the mid-1990s. In recent years, the station has been inaccessible to the public. There’s a security fence ringing the building because Sprint owns it and stores equipment in it.

But lately, with the renaissance of downtown Phoenix, Sprint and the city’s Historic Preservation Office are talking about what is the best use for the building.

“Now there’s momentum for something to happen,” said Barbara Stocklin, the city’s historic preservation officer.

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