Mesa ArtSpace Lofts: Not Everything We Know > Just Say When

It's been about five years of 'grass-roots efforts' and getting a national developer for art spaces to bring things to this point-time . . . at left is the latest  rendering for Mesa Artspace Lofts, courtesy of Artspace, after other renderings for the design have been published times before.

. . . better late than never.

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First you might want to watch this 24-sec YouTube video uploaded by David Crummy on Jun 10, 2016

Artspace Projects, NEDCO and the Mesa Arts & Culture Department are excited to announce that Mesa Artspace Lofts will be opening in late-2017 / early-2018. Funding was announced this morning by the Arizona Department of Housing. Stay tuned for updates!

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More recently an article written by Lynn Trimble appeared to re-cap 'everything-we-know' about the project. Well and good, but not quite every thing . . .

Blogger's Note: This map, from a link on the Mesa ArtSpace Lofts website can't even get the location right

Take a look > Neighborhood Map

 First some background: "Due to strong local momentum for the arts as a strategy for downtown development, Artspace has been working with the Mesa community since 2012 to explore the feasibility of an Artspace live/work project. The Mesa Artspace Lofts initiative is a true community collaboration involving Artspace, NEDCO, Mesa’s Mayor, City Council and City staff, community leaders, neighbors and local artist residents . . ." extracted from http://www.artspace.org


An earlier rendering

Artspace is a Minnesota-based nonprofit real estate development firm that specializes in affordable live/work spaces for artists. It's 2016 year-end review noted 46 projects in 19 states. This is the first Artspace development planned for Arizona. Back in 2012, Artspace began working with the City of Mesa to explore the possibility of bringing an Artspace development to the city. And it partnered with a Mesa-based nonprofit called Neighborhood Economic Development Corporation (NEDCO), which works to catalyze economic development in metro Phoenix communities

Mesa ArtSpace in the news? > http://www.artspace.org/news/related-news/places/1410

This month - after five years - Mesa Artspace Lofts is staging a ceremonial groundbreaking at 155 South Hibbert in downtown Mesa happens on Wednesday, May 24.

Here's Everything We Know About Mesa's Artspace Lofts

By Lynn Trimble Phoenix New Times Tue 09 May 2017 @ 07:00