OK. This is a short feature; who's wants to play tag? Take a look - it's less than two minutes, and uploaded today by the City-owned and operated Mesa YouTube Channel featuring Hizzoner John Giles in a 2-minute "Quickee" meandering around Pioneer Park on a Saturday. Where's Johnny-On-The-Spot in this promo for the Mesa Farmers Market & Flea: lovely Pioneer Park where $12,900,000 was spent on a tract of land across Main Street from the Mormon Temple. The re-do on the project originally started with a budget of $6.9M and somehow escalated to the higher amount.
John Giles does his do-round a couple of food trucks, a juice vendor, two organic farms that he breezes by quickly, and stops by Proof Bakery where he says his wife is "a Raspberry Person" only to be told that he's looking at are blackberries. So much fun!
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It's hasn't been 'a people's park' for years even though the neighborhood on the north side of Main Street around the park is filled mostly with high-density multi-family housing. The Farmers Market has been downtown for years, on N Center Street and in a parking lot next to City Hall on Fridays when City Hall was closed. Not a good day when most people are working (except for those who work inside City Hall). Local home-based food producers have always been welcome participants in the annual October-April DTMesa Festival of The Arts
