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Building Still Remains From Downtown Phoenix's Second Chinatown

The Sun Mercantile Building
(Photo by Mark Brodie-KJZZ)
The Sun Mercantile Building in downtown Phoenix.

We head to downtown Phoenix for another in our series looking at the Valley’s threatened places. Literally in the shadow of U.S. Airways Center, Jim McPherson, board president of the Arizona Preservation Foundation, showed me around the Sun Mercantile Building. It was built in 1929 and is the last building standing from Phoenix’s second Chinatown.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.