[Photo via City of Maricopa]
By Brian Petershein | InMaricopa
Government officials this morning gathered at the shell of what had been a Maricopa Police Department substation, ready to begin transforming it into the city’s new sports fieldhouse.
Just north of the city’s newly installed veterans memorial at the southeast corner of Bowlin Road and Greythorn Drive, the former substation’s police insignia on the façade have seen years of Maricopa sunlight, having been severely discolored.
But the building is starting to show signs of new life. A large room just inside the front door has been converted into a construction office. Farther back into the building, some walls have been partially demolished.
The most obvious sign of progress can be seen from the outside — the walls that once fortified MPD’s impound lot have been razed. Fragments of brick and metal fencing were strewn around the southern edge of the lot; a Mercedes-Benz ornament glistening through the dirt was one of few reminders of its former use.
