PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Summer is just around the corner and Arizona’s Family got an inside look at the new 24/7 cooling center in the heart of downtown Phoenix. The city opened an always-open cooling center for the first time last year, but the new location will help more people.
The new center is on Jackson Street, between Central and First avenues, making it just blocks away from Chase Field and PHX Arena. It opened May 1 and is slated to close on Sept. 30 unless heat continues through October. “The number of people we lose to heat every year is too high,” Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego said.
Tashekia Singletary spent her Tuesday in the new cooling center in downtown Phoenix to stay out of the rain. But if she’s in the same position in the next couple of weeks, she plans to come back for the summer as well. “It’s just a place that is secure,” she said. “It just makes me feel good that somebody cares enough to actually say, ‘Come in.’”…