Museum of Contemporary Art
Moving to downtown Tucson fire station — October 7, 2009
Many artists in Tucson are excited about an agreement with the city of Tucson that will provide much needed space to the Museum of Contemporary Art in the city.
MOCA is moving into Fire Station 1 in downtown Tucson, just east of the Tucson Convention Center, because the Tucson Fire Department has outgrown that facility. TFD is vacating the property at 265 S Church Avenue to move into its new Fire Station 1 and headquarters for various departments just south of the TCC.
The new facility has an underground garage that's about 70-thousand square feet and a building that's about 66-thousand square feet under roof, more than three times the size of its former building designed by architect William Wilde and built in 1970. MOCA says this brutalist-style building will require few changes and members hope to begin moving in later this year for a grand opening early in 2010.
