Let's have A REALITY-CHECK: It's a box-of-dirt constructed for celebrating the long-delayed occasion to mark the start of an ASU Mecca for Media-Creation campus here in Downtown Mesa - on top of an asphalt parking lot! . . .. .Looks like an oversized litter-box
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Now really . . .
Once upon a time this was pretty pastel-colored vision specially created to make Mesa taxpayers believe and pay for some kind of development to leverage all those rampant real estate speculation schemes for the private wealth-creation of a closely-connected cohort of some of Mayor John Giles friends who wanted to gamble on gaining title to more than 10 downtown commercial properties.
Their privately-funded $500,000+ public relations campaign to use public money turned into a major screw-up in 2016 when taxpayers rejected the proposition.
Before the end of the following year 2017, then-AZ State Senator Bob Worsley formed a number of holding companies to use private capital to scoop-up ownership of eight commercial properties on Main Street in close proximity to the proposed location.
Once upon a time this was pretty pastel-colored vision specially created to make Mesa taxpayers believe and pay for some kind of development to leverage all those rampant real estate speculation schemes for the private wealth-creation of a closely-connected cohort of some of Mayor John Giles friends who wanted to gamble on gaining title to more than 10 downtown commercial properties.
Their privately-funded $500,000+ public relations campaign to use public money turned into a major screw-up in 2016 when taxpayers rejected the proposition.
Before the end of the following year 2017, then-AZ State Senator Bob Worsley formed a number of holding companies to use private capital to scoop-up ownership of eight commercial properties on Main Street in close proximity to the proposed location.
