The city's newsroom calls it a "recap" that was rushed-out by Melissa Randazzo in the Mayor's Office just 15 minutes after the breakfast and speech ended at 10:30 a.m.
There are some cherry-picked highlights of course, bragging about job creation numbers taken from projections and self-reporting by the companies, but Randazzo's recap skips over other hard facts: Downtown Mesa is now qualified as a low-income, distressed area after 40 years of neglect.
ASU President Michael Crow
The mayor needs him for some credibility as they exchange a rehearsed banter of a back-and-forth exchange.
Other images are inserted here to illustrate some of the topics covered in the presser
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Mayor John Giles held his fifth State of the City breakfast on Feb. 5 at the Mesa Convention Center. The annual event was hosted by the Mesa Chamber of Commerce and was attended by around 850 business leaders, community leaders and elected officials.
Mayor Giles highlighted his #whyiliveinmesa campaign and described many of the reasons why he loves living in, and being Mayor of, Mesa.
#whyiliveinmesa:
#whyiliveinmesa:
Duration: 63 seconds.
2 weeks ago
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Great people:
Great people:
Mesa is the ninth safest big city in the country and has the lowest crime rate in 10 years.
Voters affirmed Mesa's public safety priority by approving revenue for 65 new police officers and 45 firefighters plus equipment, two fire stations and one police station.
Investing in the future
The new Household Hazardous Materials Facility provides Mesa residents with an environmentally-friendly facility to dispose of sensitive household material.
In late Spring 2019, the Metro light rail extension to Gilbert Road will be opening.
Signal Butte Water Treatment Plant is the City's largest single capital improvement project. It can deliver up to 24M gallons of water to homes and businesses in rapidly growing southeast Mesa.
Yes the SBWTP is the largest CIP in the city for laying the groundwork and infrastructure for commercial and industrial development and massive new master-planned community facilities districts.
As you can see in these two images of the Elliott Road Tech Corridor, adjacent areas are ripe for the real estate industrial complex to finance
Sunbelt Holdings is the designated developer for the Mesa Tech Park that's situated in an area of sprawling residential areas in southeast Mesa.
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Compassionate community
Mesa's community court helps minor offenders get back on their feet rather than spend time in jail. Since July 2018, the City has helped more than 250 individuals receive the social, mental health and housing services they need. In addition, this program saves Mesa taxpayers in jail costs and police resources.
Blogger Note: Image insert showing locations around the SBWTP
Piper Plastics, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi (Chemicals) Corporation, broke ground on a 90,000 square foot research and development center.
Cognizant, #195 on the Fortune 500, opened a technology and service center with 500 new jobs.
24/7 In Touch brought 1,400 new jobs to an empty big box at Country Club Dr. and Southern Ave.
AT&T is expanding their corporate center adding 500 jobs.
Able Aerospace, Boeing and Northrop Grumman are adding hundreds of new aerospace jobs
CMC Commercial Metals broke ground on a 63,000 square foot expansion.
EdgeCore completed building the first of seven buildings at its southeast Mesa data center.
FujiFilm is adding 90,000 square feet and is spending more than half of its $88 million US investment in Mesa.
Over $600 million has been invested in the Elliott Road Technology Coordinator in the past year.
Downtown transformation
Two new residential and retail projects*
are coming to Main St. and Mesa Dr. along with one at Main St. and Country Club Dr.
The colonnades in front of the businesses on Main St. are coming down revealing historic facades.
ASU @ Mesa City Center **
has taken the next step in being the anchor of our innovation district after the selection of design and construction contractors.
The entire presentation will be rebroadcast on Mesa Channel 11, posted on the City of Mesa YouTube channel and posted at www.mesaaz.gov/stateofthecity. _________________________________________________________________________
Office of the Mayor
Contact: Melissa Randazzo
Tel. 480-644-3219melissa.randazzo@mesaaz.gov
Contact: Melissa Randazzo
Tel. 480-644-3219melissa.randazzo@mesaaz.gov
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It was the last real estate roll-out to be 'revealed' with no financial details around the LDS Temple Transformation of Downtown Mesa. It's a mini-version of City Creek in Salt Lake City adjacent to Temple Square transplanted here by a for-profit affiliate of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints that promised "Mesa-authentic architecture"
So far - as recently as a Mesa City Council study session on 21 Feb 2019 [months after the sale of a city-owned Pomeroy Street parking lot at 300 E Main Street], developer Tony Wall's proposed project hasn't nailed down the financing after two rounds. There are other issues that arose after the plan was rushed-through in earlier approvals.
Back-to-the-drawing boards again!
** Re: ASU @ Mesa City Center
This is NOT the new construction that Mesa taxpayers approved - it's a proposal on paper going back to-the-drawing-boards with an additional $800,000 contract for a new architect and a new contractor. There's a link below to a press release from the City of Mesa Newsroom below . . .
This is NOT the new construction that Mesa taxpayers approved - it's a proposal on paper going back to-the-drawing-boards with an additional $800,000 contract for a new architect and a new contractor. There's a link below to a press release from the City of Mesa Newsroom below . . .
ASU @ Mesa City Center and The Plaza @ Mesa City Center reached a milestone as the Mesa City Council approved the selection of DPR Construction as the Construction Manager at Risk for both projects at their Monday, Jan. 28 meeting.This follows the...
