Up On The Roof @ El Rancho Del Sol: Installation of Renewable Energy Solar Panels

View on Main Street looking East

This local independent blog started from the ground-up three years ago featuring posts about innovative and affordable housing developments here in The New Urban Downtown Mesa that have collectively added about 500 residential units regenerating under-used properties transforming the city landscape.
Case in Point: El Rancho Del Sol, two buildings on East Main Street along the line of Valley Metro's Light Rail Extension through the Central Business District in August 2015. What you see today is an on-site installation in-the-works.

Rooftop Solar is rising on in a forward-looking and inspired project by Eric Paine's Community Development Partners and designed by Perlman Architects that raises a new higher standard in workforce housing: built-in-place on the ground floor sidewalk-level spaces from the get-go to benefit the residents who live here by making resources available for arts education-and-culture ongoing programs by The Cultural Coalition, behavioral support services by New Leaf, a computer and media lab, a bicycle cooperative, green living/sustainability by Garden Pool, and a well-equipped commercial kitchen facility . 
Sun Valley Solar has completed the installation on one of the new buildings atop the 4th story that's visible very close-up as well as the wide-angle panoramic view shown above.

The next stage is scheduled for completion very soon atop the rooftop super structure at 659 E Main Street [seen at left]
Blogger Note: Many thanks to Eric Paine and Community Development Partners and all the people who have invested their time, energies and finance to bring this project to completion.
Special thanks to Christian Hulme who somehow manages to coordinate every construction detail and has extended the courtesy to be available for walk-arounds and numerous updates.