Seeing Is Believing: Mesa ArtSpace Lofts Rises from The Ground-Up

This was the scene at 155 S Hibbert Street just about 90 days ago at 09:00 am on Wednesday, May 24th when a project over three years in-the-making became 'shovel-ready' with a Ground-Breaking Celebration for Mesa ArtSpace Lofts, a new live/work space for artists and families.
An enthusiastic group of the Movers-and-Shakers who made this outcome happen joined efforts to dig up the ground to start construction by The Chasse Building Team chasse.us
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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 ...

Stopping by early this morning at the urban in-fill site, your MesaZona blogger had the good fortune to strike up a casual conversation with Chase Peruch to catch-up on the work in progress: the same ground-breaking perspective looks like this today in the image to the right >
It is the north side extending from east-to-west to Hilbert Street, maximizing coverage of the lot size.

The building on the east side of S Hilbert Street with all 1-bedroom apartment/lofts, seen in a rendering from the Architect Resource Team, is now rising above the two stories height you can see at the far right above where the floor trusses were recently attached.
The raised tower at back center is the elevator shaft. If you look closely there are also two blockwall areas where roof deck extensions will have planter beds.

The image to the left is the current construction phase of the Hilbert Street frontage looking east to a glaring sunrise.
You might notice that the building's front footprint falls easily within 15 feet of the ground-level sidewalk - again to maximize the lot coverage for artists' and their families living units.

< Seen in this image to the left taken of the ongoing construction on the south side of the property, more active digging and cement block building construction continues to other buildings planned on the site.







To finish up this post, here's an upload of a 5-minute video from two years ago with Heidi Zimmer
National organization ArtSpace, teamed-up with local grass-roots non-profit NEDCO, the City of Mesa and an impress array of philanthropic, public and private financing partners to celebrate a bright future for the artist community here in The New Urban Downtown Mesa.