gold spot marketing center

Opened for business in September 1925, the Gold Spot Marketing Center is one of the first, and remaining, neighborhood shopping centers built to serve a residential area. Mixing Spanish Colonial and Mission Revival architectural styles, the building features richly textured materials with decorative details and prominent curvilinear parapets.

A casualty of inncer-city decline, the Gold Spot had been vacant since 1983 until Desert Viking purchased the buildings in 2001 to return this early shopping center (located in the heart of the Roosevelt Historic District) to community use. A new steel structure was added to support new trusses and roof, as well as re‐pointed and repaired brickwork, and a reconstructed facade. All new building services and a restoration of the original courtyard readied this historic building for business. This project was nominated for the 2004 Governor’s Heritage Preservation Award by the City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office. The building is currently listed in the National Register of Historic Places.