Here In Mesa: Incomes By Neighborhood > Good Jobs First? or F.I.R.E.

Hmmm... Now this is a jig-saw puzzle with a lot of missing pieces here in downtown that can be called 'The Donut Effect' where the dynamics of economic development have moved outward in a centrifugal force of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate [F.I.R.E.] to the ever-expanding edges of suburban sprawl where all the pay-outs get delivered for inve$tment$.
Mesa is once again surging growing-fast like in the Happy Days of The 1950's car-driven commuter-culture that killed downtown commerce leaving a legacy of loss.

What's driving the expansion and gains outside of what once was the urban core and the heart of the city that's now spawned a sprawling land-grabbing population of close to 500,000 people?
They migrated into "master-planned communities" in the New Zion/Promised Land in the New Valley of The Sun. Mastering Main Street was and is an after-thought.
The $100M that built the Mesa Arts Center here in downtown in 2005 is chump-change compared to the Billion$-of-Big-Buck$ mostly invested in East Mesa, northeast and southeast clustered around airports morphing into Aerotropolis for commercial, industrial and residential development at the edges of the "Outer Loops" and in close proximity to the "Inner Loops" of new east-west tech corridors and high-opportunity employment manufacturing zones over what used to agricultural lands.

That's just the way it goes: more and more and more


One of the reasons is certainly not the average city's costs per household for Suburban compared with Urban investments as you can see in this infographic:


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TAKE A LOOK AT THIS: Most Recent Data for Median Household Income by Zip Code
Is this an example of 'Self-Segregating'??
http://www.city-data.com/zipmaps/Mesa-Arizona.html 

White alone

130,64127.0%Hispanic

17,6603.6%Black alone

14,5423.0%American Indian alone

11,1342.3%Two or more races

9,5642.0%Asian alone

2,8430.6%Native Hawaiian and Other
Pacific Islander alone
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Mesa-Arizona.html#ixzz59YU7gG2c

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Back to the jig-saw puzzle: It's like that 'Chicken-and-Egg" thing or Why did the chicken cross the road" ??
...or BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME?
[an empty space - open land or abandoned/under-used spaces - creates a vacuum]
 

Greatest Mesa Income Growth By Neighborhood (last 5 years)
Source: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/az/mesa/demographics

1. S Stapley Dr / E Millett Ave
2. E Brown Rd / N Gilbert Rd
3. Sunny Acres Trailer Village
4. Suntree / Woodland Heights
5. Hacienda de Valencia / Mesa Shadows Mobile Home Park
6. Trails West Mobile Home Park
7. E Baseline Rd / S Higley Rd
8. Azurite / Alabaster
9. Greenfield Park
10. Lehi