By Izzy Rosales | Downtown Devil
The historic E.S Wakelin Grocery Company Warehouse has stood on the corner of 5th Avenue and Jackson Street for 106 years, but the days of one of downtown Phoenix’s oldest warehouse buildings are numbered.
On Wednesday, the City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office approved a demolition request for The Wakelin building for citing economic hardship as its main motivation.
Built in 1913, the Wakelin building was a warehouse which supplied E.S Wakelin Grocer Company. The Arizona Republic reported that the company was “now probably the largest business establishment in Phoenix” in 1911.