The recipients of the 28th Annual Governor's Heritage Preservation Honors Awards were recognized in front of 250 attendees at the 8th Annual Arizona Statewide Historic Preservation Partnership Conference at the du Bois Center on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

The 2010 honorees are:

• First Pinal County Courthouse Preservation Project, Florence (1878)
• United Verde Mine Project, Jerome (c. 1883)
• Knights of Pythias Building Rehabilitation, Prescott (c. 1892)
• Florence Union High School, Florence (1916)
• Cutler Plotkin Jewish Center Restoration, Phoenix (1921, 1936)
• A.E. England Motor Car Company Building Rehabilitation, Phoenix (1926)
• Arizona Hardware Supply Company Warehouse Rehabilitation, Phoenix (1930)
• Daughters of the American Revolution (Governor George W.P. Hunt Chapter, Gilbert) for efforts to restore Gov. Hunt's Tomb (1932)
• Pima County Historic Preservation Bond Program, Tucson (1997, 2004)
• Jim McPherson, Preservation Advocate, Phoenix

Construction has begun near the Historic Grand Canyon Depot to improve the area where Grand Canyon Railway passengers board buses for tours within Grand Canyon National Park.

The project was included as part of Canyon's 2008 South Rim Visitor Transportation Plan. The project will cost about $925,000 and is being funded through the Federal Lands Highway Program using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The project will include many improvements including a one-way access road, drainage and erosion control and parallel parking for up to 10 tour buses.