02 February 2020

The For-Profit Saints Put Their Own Stamp-on-The-Map To Transform Downtown Mesa Into A Satellite of Salt Lake City

Here's your Spoon-Fed subservient hype from the City of Mesa's favorite go-to "Tribune Staff Writer" - Jim Walsh stikes again! 
The only thing REVOLTING about what Walsh gets paid-to-write is  no financial details were ever disclosed to the public


Downtown Mesa’s revolution in full throttle
by Jim Walsh, Tribune Staff Writer 

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The Grove on Main Street is rapidly rising on the eastern edge of downtown Mesa. Together with an exhaustive renovation of the Mesa Arizona Tempe grounds, construction of Arizona State University’s building and a nearby new “urban neigborhood”,  The Grove will radically transform the downtown landscape. 
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"One year after The Grove on Main began in fall 2018, as a giant hole hidden behind a fence, the retail-residential complex looms over the eastern edge of downtown Mesa. 
 
Together with a complete renovation of the interior and grounds of the Mesa Arizona Temple, a $75 million “urban neighborhood” breaking ground later this month and the start of construction of Arizona State University’s building, The Grove on Main Street is the most striking indication yet of the revolution coming to the downtown landscape. 
The Grove is well on its way to putting its stamp on the change.
“It’s our first crane in the air in downtown Mesa, which is an exciting time,’’ said Jeff McVay, Mesa’s manager of downtown transformation, alluding to The Grove’s status as the first major downtown redevelopment project headed toward completion.
Two large buildings are scheduled for completion in November and others in January, said Carl Duke, vice president of City Creek Reserve, the real estate arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . ."
Read the entire story and more > https://www.eastvalleytribune.com
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BLOGGER NOTE: 

18 December 2019


City Creek Center in Salt Lake City Under Scruting by The Feds In An IRS Tax Fraud Filing Case
An investigation in The Washington Post
Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges
 
"A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion in accounts intended for charitable purposes, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Washington Post. "
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"The confidential document, received by the IRS on Nov. 21, accuses church leaders of misleading members — and possibly breaching federal tax rules — by stockpiling their surplus donations instead of using them for charitable works. It also accuses church leaders of using the tax-exempt donations to prop up a pair of businesses..."
The complaint provides a window into the closely held finances of one of the nation’s most visible religious organizations, based in Salt Lake City. 

It details a church fortune far exceeding past estimates and encompassing stocks, bonds and cash.
Based on internal accounting documents from February 2018, the complaint estimates the portfolio has grown in value from $12 billion in 1997, when Ensign was formed, to about $100 billion today. 
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30 September 2018
Redevelopment Plans Announced for Area Near Mesa Arizona Temple
We are so blessed!
Just another one of those 'Revelations', published today by  East Valley Tribune staff writer Jim Walsh who's getting ahead of his stories published by The Times Media Group for local consumption, framing them with a battle between "historic preservation can't beat progress" and "revitalizing" downtown Mesa. 
Now he's revealing Phase 2 in the Mesa LDS Temple-area, where for-profit investment affiliates own more than 70 properties - they essentially "own the neighborhood" so we won't see any neighbors objecting. . . 
Blogger Note1: Writer Jim Walsh provides no links to the statement by CCRI Spokesman Dale Bills that he uses in the reporting and he doesn't name the CCRI 'affiliates' who own the land increasing the original Phase 1 of 4.6 acres to the 8.2 acres in Phase 2.
Blogger Note 2: Scroll down below in related content to see the sources of the announcements and revelations about earlier plans - Question: Is this really what Mesa needs? 


TIME FOR A REACTION? 
Or cross your fingers behind your back and hope no one notices?