Commercial Properties Are Changing Hands Here In The New Urban DTMesa

Case in point: 62 South Center Street, a one-story building part of a large piece of land at the northwest corner of Center Street and First Avenue, directly across the street from the south campus of the Mesa Arts Center.
The image to the left was taken back in March from the second floor outdoor area of the community room at Encore On First.
If you look closely in the foreground you can see a cyclone fence topped with barbed wire enclosing an automobile repair business.
At the middle right you can see the southwest view of MAC in very close proximity to the site, as well as in the center the Main Street façade of City Hall at Main Street/Center where there is a Valley Metro Light Rail Station - a prime location no doubt for adaptive re-use development.
TAKE ANOTHER LOOK: This perspective is from one block south of Main Street between Macdonald and Center Sheets on First Avenue. Nice view, huh? 

Image to the right is a view from the vantage point of the frontage of 62 S Center Street from directly across the opposite corner at the NEC with First Avenue.
The building's showroom has sat empty for more than two years with the exception of a Rolls Royce on display under repair that "disappeared" shortly after the sale of the property.
Seeing a seen a couple of months that the property had been sold and is "available", curiosity got the best of your MesaZona blogger sending an email to the Mayor's Office for Public Information only to receive that the was "a private transaction" [?????????????????]

With any luck or combination of circumstances [like the Notice of Seizure & Landlord's Lien]  posted on the door of office/showroom by LRA Associates who's handling the property] and after striking up a conversation with someone in the auto repair lot, he didn't know who had purchased the property, but told yours truly the property would be turned into a restaurant with parking . . . mebbe just another rumor??

Time will tell, or plans will be drawn up and proposed to go into the zoning/approval, but maybe it is likely that that the plans for an RFP at 1 West Main Street for a mixed-use 3-5 story building that included a sidewalk restaurant will somehow take place at 62 S Center Street.
It's open for speculation od course.