Another "Crane-In-The-Sky" Towers Over The Low-Level Downtown Mesa City Scape

The privately-financed $500,000+ Public Relations-campaign scam scheme to Re-Package the 2016 Proposition that Mesa taxpayers REJECTED four years ago looks like a reality now in this image to the left captured on July 24th. Mesa voters rejected a proposal in 2016 that would have brought a branch of ASU to downtown Mesa. Voters did not want the tax increase needed to pay for the project, but now another proposal is in the works. . .

Or so they thought trying to hoodwink the public one Mo' time. City officials can't do their "homework" to crunch the numbers of a life cycle cost-benefit analysis ahead of time.?

Here was a headline on the controversial proposition from February 2018 in the next stage of sell-it-to-the-public featured the day following a controversial Mesa City Council on KJZZ, owned by Sinclair Broadcasting in Salt Lake City:

Mesa Moves Closer To Developing New ASU Building -

. . . or is it  "close but NO cigar"???

By  Austin Westfall   

Published: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 5:00pm

THAT WAS MORE THAN 2 YEARS AGO: The spoon-fed report goes on in what was  a not unanimous vote of 5-2 in a controversial meeting on Monday February 26, 2018, the City Council approved the first steps Monday in building an ASU development in downtown Mesa.

The plan, which would not increase taxes ???????  for Mesa residents, would include a new building to house programs like film, gaming and virtual reality.

Original Price Tag: $64,500,000 +

Some later additions: "Guaranteed Maximum Price" in a series of Contract Manager At Risk (CMAR) contracts where the city transferred all the risks to contractors and their sub-contractors!

GAMING? Well then, let's play on and get down to the Real Nitty-Gritty:

How much more?

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We don't know.