UPDATE: Opportunities Abound Here in Downtown for Commercial Real Estate Office-Space

One of the many things your MesaZona blogger likes to do is to encourage growth for that mysterious thing in urban planning lingo called 'critical mass' that needs to increase here in The New Urban Downtown.
One way to do that is getting existing office-space leased out to either create jobs and/or attract principals of businesses to locate their workspace here, with an abundance of parking spaces if they don't choose to live downtown with easy access to Valley Metro Light Rail or the downtown complex.
Here's an update added to this post on Tue 18 July 2017 from the Mesa Office of Economic Development:

Mesa Real Estate Snapshot (First Quarter 2017)
Space Type	Average Rent (NNN)		Available Space
Class A Office	$25.20 / SF		330,193 SF
General Office	$18.11 / SF		1,391,376 SF
Flex Space	$10.89 / SF		357,409 SF
General Industrial	$7.66 / SF		957,547 SF
Source: CoStar, 2017

Above is an image taken on July 4th of 123 N Centennial Way while on the way to get a look at the new location for the Mesa Chamber of Commerce at 165 N Centennial Way about half-a-block up the street directly opposite the entrance to the Phoenix Mesa Marriott Hotel and slightly east within footsteps from the Mesa Convention Center.
Centennial Center is a 2-story building with an elevator at the NEC of 1st Street & Centennial Way 

It's a very safe location with a satellite space for the Mesa Police Department on the second floor south side as you can see in the image to the left.
According to information on http://www.downtownmesa.com the 7,180 sq Ft business center was built in 1977 as Class B office leasing at $12 Rent/SqFt/YR with a 74.4% occupancy rate as of 08/20/15.
Smallest Space: 240 SF Max Contig: 2,160 SF
Parking spaces: 52 Covered Spaces + 78 Surface Spaces
Information and commercial real estate market conditions may have changed in the last two years. If you are interested in leasing business office space at this location please call

Randall E Blum at 480.827.9591.
Website > http://www.rebltd.com/ REB LIMITED

Real Estate Management & Investment
Centennial Center Office Building​123 N. Centennial Way
Mesa, AZ 85201
Centennial Center, a 26,000 sq. ft. garden style office building located in the heart of Mesa’s downtown business district is currently owned by Madisson B. LLC. This multi-tenant office complex offers a variety of office suites ranging from 240 sq. ft. to 2400 sq. ft. with easy access to parking as well as affordable lease rates, negotiable terms and conditions. It is ideally located within walking distance to the city’s municipal building, library, post office, hotels, and restaurants.

Source: http://www.rebltd.com/services.html Click for site plan and availability
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Here's the new location for the Mesa Chamber of Commerce located on the second floor in this view from the interior from the 2nd Floor walkways of the Downtown Center for Mesa Community College located at 165 N Centennial Way.

The Downtown Center is home to Fire Science/EMT program, Virtual Incident Command Center (VICC), and the MCC/NAU Connection, according to this source

The building is big with a big attached parking garage from 145-165 N Centennial Way ... commerce/college campus??

The new location for the Mesa Chamber of Commerce was not easy-to-find since there was no signage posted on a building directory or the doors and windows in the 2nd Floor new digs that's not exactly the stand-alone attraction hardly visible way over to the left of those two palms trees at street level.

Why this out-of-the way placement from a high-visibility site the Chamber occupied for years at 40 N Center Street?

Any leasing/rent agreements between MCC and the City - or the reasons - undisclosed.

Suite 108 Vet Resource Center

News of the move [if you want to call it that] arrived in an email last Wednesday with no reason given just saying 'now you know'. Apparently their lease was not renewed . . .

So let's leave it at that to some good news that came from the 'grapevine' that Suite 108, directly beneath Suite 208 at ground level that used to be the Recruitment Center for MCC or The Chair Academy will now house a resource center for veterans.
Let's see what the announced plans were back in May for the shuffle in locations to a college campus in downtown Mesa. Hmm
Published on May 22, 2017 Sally Harrison and Mark Young Talk Join the Show for This Month's Community Spotlight . . she realized we weren't doing enough for veterans here in Mesa and talked to a friend who used to work in ex-Congressman Matt Salmon's office ...they say they need funding ...but doesn't this all sound thrown together real-fast just a coincidence at the end of the fiscal year? . . .