The Polly Rosenbaum Arizona State Archives and History building was approved unanimously on December 20, 2005 by the Arizona Legislature's Joint Committee on Capitol Review. They decided to hire an independent construction manager to assist the Legislative Council in managing the project. This means that the architects will soon resume work on the plans. There is still no information on when the ground will be broken on the old Jackson School site or how much the delay created by House Speaker Jim Weiers and Representative Russell Pearce will cost due to the rising prices in construction materials.According to Friends of Arizona Archives President Vince Murray, "We've been here before. Until I see construction happening on the Jackson School site, I won't have any confidence that we are even close to resolving this decades old problem." The current State Archives facility was designed in 1937 and ran out of space in 1965. [Photo source: Friends of Arizona Archives.]
