YUMA WELCOME CENTER

Developer: City of Yuma
Contractor: Howard S. Wright Constructors
Architect: Weber Murphy Fox
Size: 5,000 SF
Location: 180 W. First St., Yuma

Construction on the city’s $4M welcome center will finish winter 2009. The facility, comprised of structural steel framing with a glass-walled hangar area, will house the Aeronca airplane and the Buick that put Yuma on the map back in the 1940s. The remainder of the development includes a museum area, control tower and off-site improvements on 3.5 acres.

 AZRE March/April 2009