Friday, October 16, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Creative Place Making > El Rancho del Arte Grand Opening
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| How Mesa got the news way back when |
Community Development Partners communitydevpartners.com planned and built this habitat/residential environment [featured in previous posts here on October 8 and back on March 02] through a thoughtful, human-centered collaboration that involved a team of engaged stakeholders. The project team is excited to have created this community in Mesa and thankful for the tenacity of everyone involved.
Now that the built environment has been created, attention is being turned to community activation. In pursuit of that step, a strong supportive services program is being rolled out that includes educational classes for parents and after-school programs for children, as well as community-building events.
The 66-unit residential development is a welcome addition to the emerging new urban downtown Mesa, opened 14 months after ground-breaking.
Construction on Phase 2 with 47 additional apartments of El Rancho del Arte by Community Development Partners is planned to start in the near future.
The fourteen partners include: Arizona Department of Housing, Cultural Coalition Inc, A New Leaf, Alliant, Integrity Housing, City of Mesa, NEDCO, Rocky Mountain CRC, Icon Builders, Perlman Architects, LISC, Chase, and Celtic Property Management.
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| Eric Paine |
Kelly Sands, Icon Builders "is very pleased to complete this exciting affordable housing family project along the Valley Metro Rail transit line in Mesa. Access to public transportation gives residents more choices and easier access to the workplace and public amenities. The transit orientation also supports healthier life practices of conservation and public commuting, . . "
He commended Community Development Partners, and the tenacity of all the stakeholders for the construction and opening of this new building with all the in-place services and programs that benefit residents' families and children to create opportunities in downtown Mesa for affordable housing.
Liz Morales, Mesa's new director for Community Housing and Development, attended the ceremony along with the mayor's chief of staff. Council member Chris Glover had other commitments.
Amenities include ground floor inside parking, public art installations, large communal flex areas, children's after-school programs, BBQ and picnic areas and a courtyard playground in an interior 4-story high atrium, raised plots in a community garden, bicycle parking, a pool and computer center.
Everyone was all smiles at the ribbon cutting ceremony in the image to the right.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
World Grain News > In Mesa: Natural, Organic + Non-GMO Project Verified
Flowers completes acquisition of Alpine Valley Bread
10/14/2015 - by World Grain Staff
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, U.S. — Flowers Foods, Inc. on Oct. 13 completed the acquisition of Alpine Valley Bread Co. for $120 million in cash and stock. Based in Mesa, Arizona, U.S., Alpine Valley bakes bread that is natural, organic and Non-GMO Project verified. The company operates two bakeries in Mesa and employs 282. Alpine Valley Bread Company will operate as an independent subsidiary of Flowers Foods.
http://www.world-grain.com/articles/news_home/World_Grain_News/2015/10/Flowers_completes_acquisition.aspx?ID={0BF24C47-AF3D-43FE-A123-AED36C9130FD}&cck=1.
Why Read?? NEWS | The Global Conversation
This shows that there is tremendous interest in inequality these days all over the world - and here locally in Arizona and Mesa.
There's a big concern over whether globalisation is benefiting everyone or is being captured by a small group of the population and what’s new in this book is that many researchers from more than 30 countries have put together the largest historical database on income and wealth inequality that has ever been put together. So that’s really what is new. Picketty studies inequality from a historical perspective.
" . . . When people are unable to solve their social and unemployment and domestic problems through peaceful policies, then it is always tempting to blame others . . . "
In this edition of Global Conversation Isabelle Kumar speaks to him about his vision of economics and society . . .
What are your three favourite books?
“That’s complicated. In my book I talk a lot about Balzac ‘Le Père Goriot’, and indeed I think this was such a powerful way to talk about capitalism in the 19th century.
Marx was saying in the 1860s that it was by reading Balzac that he learned the most about capitalism.
I think this is the same today but you have to switch authors so one my favourite novel recently was the latest novel of Carlos Fuentes ‘La volunta y la fortuna’ which is an incredible novel about capitalism in Mexico.
Tancrède Voituriez who is a young French author who recently wrote about ‘the invention of poverty’ (L’invention de la pauvreté), which is a very funny novel about how development economists pretend to save the world and don’t always do so. So you have lot of very powerful novels that put money and capitalism at the centre of their investigation.”
See and Read more >>
http://www.euronews.com/2015/10/14/rocking-the-establishment-thomas-piketty-s-challenge-to-orthodox-economics/
Oh Yeah! Comic + Media Expo Here for 3 Days
For three days, the Mesa Convention Center transforms into one of the nation’s most fun gatherings of artists, cosplayers, and comic-book aficionados. This awesome event features celebrity panelists, workshops, art exhibitions and more. 
Heroes, villains, and all sorts of pop culture characters alike are well represented at this fun convention, as well as the movies, TV shows, and comic books they populate. POP-UP! BIZ > TATTOO PARLOR NIGHT
Go to facebook link after poster
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1657831914460965&set=gm.774030662719264&type=3
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
What Works in Mesa is NOT Good 'Ole Boys Crony Politics
All in good faith: There was just a short-lived blip in local media a couple of weeks ago about a new candidate running for election to the Mesa City Council who was immediately endorsed by both the present and previous mayors - did anyone else think these politicos are trying to do a "quick fix" by a certain political machine to maintain its decades-long monopoly of the City Council.? Are these two mayors trying to "jumpstart" the political machine in an upcoming election to the Mesa City Council? Fair question - it's probably safe to say that for over 125 years those elected have been very male, very white, and very Mormon
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