A Bus Station 'Trans-feration'
By Steve Dwyer
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The city of Flagstaff, Ariz., is helping change the way people perceive getting around town—and its revitalizing a 100-year-old brownfield property in the process.
A parcel of land—located at 116 West Phoenix Ave. in Flagstaff—is proving to be an ideal location to situate a new bus transfer station, deemed so for several reasons, one being that it's in close proximity to the city's new NAU Drury Convention Center as well as the Amtrak rail station. In addition, the transfer station is located in the heart of the Southside Community, which makes it a centralized location.
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