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Biosphere 2, with upgraded solar panels in foreground, sits on a sprawling 40-acre (16-hectare) science campus that is open to the public. The Biosphere 2 project was launched in 1984 by businessman and billionaire philanthropist Ed Bass and systems ecologist John P. Allen, with Bass providing US$150 million in funding until 1991. [7]
Arizona Science Center, formerly the Arizona Museum of Science & Technology, was conceived in 1980 as a pilot science center by the Junior League of Phoenix. [1] The Science Center opened its doors to the public in 1984 as a small 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) storefront exhibition space located in the parking garage level of the downtown Phoenix Hyatt.
Metrocenter was a regional enclosed shopping mall in northwest Phoenix, Arizona.It was bounded by Interstate 17, 31st, Dunlap and Peoria Avenues.Before its closure, the three most recently open anchor stores were Harkins Theatres, Walmart Supercenter, and Dillard's Clearance Center; three additional vacant anchor stores included former Sears, JCPenney, and Macy's locations.
KSAZ-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, serving as the market's Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside KUTP (channel 45), which airs MyNetworkTV programming.
The Arizona location closed on May 31, 2011, [11] with a Heart Attack Grill opening in Dallas, Texas, earlier that month. [12] The Dallas restaurant closed in October 2011 due to non-payment of rent, [13] and the restaurant's official website was scrubbed of any Dallas location information. [14]
The Formula One United States Grand Prix was held on the Phoenix street circuit in Phoenix, Arizona, between 1989 and 1991. It was held in downtown by the Phoenix Civic Plaza and the America West Arena , prior to the introduction of the state's baseball stadium, Bank One Ballpark .
The Phoenix Municipal Building replaced the city hall in the County Courthouse (right) With Phoenix and Maricopa County both continuing with explosive growth after World War II, the joint city-county building, which represented a vastly different era in state history, now was as inadequate as the structures it had replaced.
Chase Field, formerly Bank One Ballpark, is a retractable-roof stadium in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona.It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks.It opened in 1998, the year the Diamondbacks debuted as an expansion team.