Downtown Mesa Is For Everyone - Not Only Entrpeneurs & Innovators

A Tweet from Mayor John Giles yesterday: Why is he so late? This event was announced at last Thursday's 11 Jan Mesa City Council Study Session!
Just keeping the information closely-held from the public while only making registration available on the website for The Mesa Chamber of Commerce???? . . . and suggesting that people only "tune-in" rather than actively encouraging the public to participate in a discussion about what's important here in DTMesa? 

 

WHAT'S NEXTMESA?????
Mayor John Giles‏ @MayorGiles 20h20 hours ago

Tune in for a discussion w/world renowned Brookings Institution, to see how #Mesa is preparing downtown to be the location of choice for entrepreneurs and innovators.

#nextmesa pic.twitter.com/8Iz8no8ZZd

It's no wonder that downtown Mesa has become "The Old Donut-Hole"

In 2005 a $100 Million Dollar-Investment in the Mesa Arts Center was supposed to transform DTMesa into an "Arts-and-Entertainment District"

. . . Did that happen?

In August 2015 Valley Metro Light Rail service was opened extending into the Central Business District here in historic DTMesa

. . . Did "The Salvation Train" that John Giles promised 2 years ago ever arrive??

 

. . . and now he brags after two years in elected office inside City Hall that

Mesa is preparing downtown to be the location of choice for entrepreneurs and innovators.

2 years ago Mesa joined Bloomberg Philanthropies WhatWorksCities . . .

How's that working here now?

What has the mayor delivered for results?

Now  Giles says that are "experts" from The Brookings Institution scheduled to be here.

GOOD! We need all the help we can get

• Has the City of Mesa achieved its self-set goal to achieve 2,000 housing units downtown? NO. . . only about 500

It looks like Mesa has great success pouring millions into sprawling Suburban enclaves of "Master-Planned Communities" like Eastmark (8,000 homes sold in two years) but for some reason cannot Master Main Street

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QUESTION: Is John Giles playing a big enough role or just Jivin' all the time?

NOT from The Brightest Minds Inside Mesa City Hall

Your MesaZona blogger really hopes that Mesa Mayor John Giles gets his act together before this year's performance in the State-Of-The-City Speech on February 6, 2018.
He's had the all the opportunities to learn on-the-job getting invited to Harvard and Washington, D.C under the auspices of Mike Bloomberg... It's easy to get elected, hard to perform
Report June 2017      

Advancing a new wave of urban competitiveness:

The role of mayors in the rise of innovation districts

Julie Wagner, Jennifer S. Vey, Steve Davies, and Nathan Storing  

"Over the past year, the United States Conference of Mayors and the Brookings Institution, along with Project for Public Spaces have worked together to capture a new model of growth that is emerging in cities and the particular roles that mayors can play.

READ MORE > here 

 

 

 

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13 January 2018

 iNNOVATION DISTRICT: Can It Accelerate Us To Re/Generate Mesa's "Old Donut-Hole"??

Does Mesa have all the stuff-in-place to make it work?
These districts by definition, are “geographic areas where leading-edge anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect with start-ups, business incubators, and accelerators. Compact, transit-accessible, and technically-wired, innovation districts foster open collaboration, grow talent, and offer mixed-used housing, office, and retail.”
Can you wrap your head around that or get through it?
The Rise of Mesa’s Innovation District        
Date: Thu 18 Jan 2018         

Time: 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM MST

Event Description: Please note none on Chamber website
This is an event you need to register for on the website for The Mesa Chamber of Commerce - it's open to the public free admission.
Posted here is some background and related content as well as additional resources

YOU CAN FIND RELATED CONTENT AND SOURCES > right here.use this link
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Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Vey, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Panelists:

Karrin Taylor Robson, Chair, GPEC Next Leadership Council
Ji Mi Choi, Associate Vice President, Arizona State University
John Graham, President & CEO, Sunbelt Holdings
Jenny Poon, Founder, Co+Hoots

 Location:

Mesa Arts Center
Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse

Date/Time Information:

8 a.m. – 9 a.m. Registration, refreshments and networking
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Program

Fees/Admission:Invitation

TO REGISTER

Link > http://www.mesachamber.org/events/details