The Arizona State Fairgrounds is a permanent fairgrounds on McDowell Road, Encanto Village, within the city of Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, an arena at the fairgrounds, hosted the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association from 1968 to 1992.
The fairgrounds were created in 1905, when a volunteer organization, the Arizona Territorial Fair Association, purchased the property and first developed it.
[10][11][12] More recently it had been allowed to deteriorate, and was scheduled to be demolished in July 2014.
They were given a temporary restraining order by the Maricopa County Superior Court in 2014[10] and given until April 14, 2016, to raise $120,000 towards preservation of the building.