City Council Study SessionThu 03 March 2016 7:30 AM Mesa Council Chambers 57 East First Street Mayor John Giles Vice Mayor Dennis Kavanaugh - District 3 Councilmember Dave Richins - District 1 Councilmember Alex Finter - District 2 Councilmember Chris Glover - District 4 Councilmember David Luna - District 5 Councilmember Kevin Thompson - District 6 Watch it live on Mesa Channel11 if you can't be there >> http://mesa11.com/ondemand/ Presentations/Action Items: 16-0143 16-0224 16-0242 16-0199 16-0265 16-0143 Hear a presentation and discuss an update on the Police Department's Forensic Services Division. 16-0224 Hear a presentation and discuss an update of Falcon Field Airport and provide direction on its future development. 16-0242 Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on a proposed Tech Center to be located on property immediately west of Falcon Field Airport. 16-0199 Hear a presentation and discuss the City's FY 2016/17 financial forecast. 16-0265 Information pertaining to the current Job Order Contracting projects
No, this is not just another noisy construction site for Creative Place Making here in the New Urban DTMesa, starting just days after the local highly-acclaimed installment of the international Pop-Up event Play Me, I'm Yours! with 23 of those of wildly-imagined pianos now getting moved to satellite locations all over the city. What's Next? [thinking way ahead to April, dear readers] Musical Shadows
PHOTO CREDIT: PAUL RAMIREZ
If you were here last year for MAC's Spark! Festival of Creativity - it's taking place this year in about two weeks - you saw a prototyping of Musical Shadows Interactive work by Daily tous les jours, a studio lab in Montréal, Québec, Canada. This permanent interactive installation at the North Campus entrance from Main Street is part of many years of support for Mesa's 21st Century Café Society that is repositioning the Mesa Arts Center campus as an inspiring “third space” for the city by creating a welcoming and interesting environment and gathering place through interactive public art in a setting featuring café tables, food/beverage service, and live performances.
Daily tous les jours is an interaction design studio with a focus on participation – empowering people to have a place in the stories that are told around them. They create collective experiences.
http://www.dailytouslesjours.com/ https://twitter.com/dailytlj https://www.facebook.com/Dailytouslesjours/timeline OK, so Mesa Arts Center is the grantee. . . Who's the grantor? and what - bottom-line, please - is the cost? According to the interactive map of current Capital Improvement Projects CIPs on the City of Mesa website CP 0347 was awarded by the City Council 19 Jan 2016 Amount: $443,898 Start Date: 01 Feb 2016 Finish Date: 25 March 2016
The generous organization supporting this ArtPlace America. Readers of this blog have seen a number of posts here before. If you need another introduction here it is ArtPlace America (ArtPlace) is a ten-year collaboration among a number of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions that works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development in order to help strengthen the social, physical, and economic fabric of communities. ArtPlace focuses its work on Creative PlaceMaking, which describes projects in which art plays an intentional and integrated role in place-based community planning and development. This brings artists, arts organizations, and artistic activity into the suite of placemaking strategies pioneered by Jane Jacobs and her colleagues, who believed that community development must be locally informed, human-centric, and holistic. In practice, this means having arts and culture represented alongside sectors like housing and transportation – with each sector recognized as part of any healthy community; as requiring planning and investment from its community; and as having a responsibility to contribute to its community’s overall future. In scanning the community planning and development field, we found five types of stakeholders working across ten sectors that, while not comprehensive, capture a majority of work taking place in communities:
focus, money and determination on the part of communities and their leaders. Your MesaZona blogger recently sent an email to the Public Information Office of Mayor John Giles asking for a follow-up quote to a couple of lines in an earliest post about a grant from State Farm "In Arizona, funding will advance a corridor redevelopment plan in Tempe and commercial revitalization work along Main Street in Mesa.
Mesa Mayor John Giles, among other city, state, and national leaders working in public-private partnerships, has been a strong supporter for transit-oriented development to regenerate the New Urban Downtown Mesa. He was a part of the on-site visit here last summer by SF Fed Reserve Bank President John Williams to encourage investment in Creative Place Making."
Quite surprisingly, this arrived in the inbox quite fast
Hi Tim,
Here is a quote from Mayor Giles.
“I’m excited for all of the opportunities that transit oriented development can bring to downtown Mesa. From arts and education to housing and nightlife, I can’t wait to see what’s next.”
Thanks,
Melissa Randazzo Public Information Office of the Mayor
This blog started out just one year ago writing and publishing about transit-oriented development here in The New Urban Downtown Mesa, having attracted some interest with over 21,000 views.
Arizona-based real estate investment and development company Harvard Investments has teamed-up with not one but two out-of-state companies with "New York-Values" - Lincoln Property Company (LPC) and GTIS Partners LP (“GTIS”), an international real estate private equity firm headquartered in New Yorkare planning to make capital gains here in real estate at Waypoint and Cadence at Gateway - the focus of strategies for economic development by the City of Mesa's Economic Development Office.
Ground broken on Mesa Riverview Office Project 25 Jan 2015/in News
East Valley Tribune
MESA – On Wednesday, Lincoln Property Management broke ground on the Class A office space in Mesa Riverview, which it announced back in June.
The development, now called Waypoint, is located at 1138 Bass Pro Drive and is scheduled to move in its first tenant, the headquarters of American Traffic Solutions, along with some 500-plus jobs, in November.
“Three years ago, Harvard didn’t have any projects in the city of Mesa,” Craig Krumwiede, president and director at Harvard Investments, said. “We wouldn’t be in Mesa without the city’s commitment to responsible development.”
Krumwiede went on to say that the city’s fast tracking of development permissions and other aid allowed the project to meet the deadline necessary to attract ATS to the site.
Harvard Investments and LPC creating 425KSF offices
With the just-closed, $34.34 million office acquisition of Riverview Point, Harvard Investments and Lincoln Property Company (LPC) will combine new construction with existing buildings to establish a 425,861-square-foot, Class A office campus at the borders of Tempe, Scottsdale and Mesa, Arizona. The new development, branded collectively as Waypoint, will combine Harvard and LPC’s recently delivered Waypoint One Class A office building. Ground will be broken soon for Waypoint Two Class A office building and the existing, two-building Riverview Point portfolio. The result is a four-building business campus situated on 34.53 acres along the Loop 202 and adjacent to Mesa Riverview, a 1.3 million-square-foot retail, hospitality and entertainment complex. “With this activity, we’re establishing an almost half-million-square-foot office destination within one of the Valley’s brightest business corridors,” said Craig Krumwiede, president of Harvard Investments. “It is a tremendous opportunity to create a very strong new portfolio asset in the market.” Developed in 2008, Riverview Point consists of two, two-story office buildings totaling 164,861 square-feet at 1138 and 1146 N. Alma School Rd. in Mesa. The project is 98 percent leased to tenants including Ashton Woods, Mitel Corporation, Udall Shumway PLC and the corporate headquarters for Nextcare. In March, Harvard and LPC will break ground on Waypoint Two, a 152,000-square-foot Class A office building adjacent to Waypoint One at 1130 N. Alma School Rd. in Mesa. Waypoint Two is designed to accommodate single- and multiple-occupancy users. Like Waypoint One, it will provide a “high-tech” aesthetic with clean lines, timeless materials, simple detailing, bright and open lobbies and workspaces and abundant parking.
Harvard Investments and GTIS Partners Announce New Cadence at Gateway Residential Community in Southeast Mesa
A new master-planned residential community in Mesa’s expanding Gateway corridor.
Harvard expects to break ground in January 2016.
We are excited to be part of a unique master-planned community that will bring housing, retail space and job growth to the city of Mesa,” said Robert Vahradian, Senior Managing Director of GTIS Partners. “Our partner and exceptional design team has integrated the homes, landscaping and amenities together in a way that fosters a true sense of community in the neighborhood.”
Development Timeline Harvard Investments anticipates having homes available in 2017 as part of phase one of Cadence at Gateway. Phase one plans include approximately 600 homes built by nationally-respected builders, in intimate residential neighborhoods, with abundant parks and a trail system, and resident amenities that include a fitness center, pools, sport courts, community center, café and more. In future phases, Cadence at Gateway’s master plan includes a centrally located school site, additional community parks nestled among individualized homes, trails, and a main street commercial experience at the community’s main entrance. Design and Land Plan Built on New American Traditional Design principles, Cadence at Gateway will foster neighborhood connectivity with short residential blocks (average 10 homes on either side), separated sidewalks with abundant greenery, roundabouts, and distinct parks and landmarks for each neighborhood within the community. A richly landscaped entrance will, over time, include a business district with shopping, services and recreation reflective of a traditional main street. Additionally, Cadence at Gateway homes will emphasize indoor/outdoor living, usability, durability, modern conveniences and distinct floor plans for every type of homeowner – from those just starting out, to couples celebrating an empty nest and every type of family in between.
Accessibility Located near the Loop 202 Santan Freeway, at State Route 24 between Ray and Ellsworth roads, Cadence at Gateway is situated in the center of the East Valley’s growing Gateway corridor. The new community will provide residents access to high tech employers, a multitude of education options and the thriving Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport. To learn more about Cadence at Gateway visit http://cadenceaz.com.
Contacts
The Ferraro Group Phoenix (for Harvard Investments) Heather Austin, 602-738-9252
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Somebody got up early in the City of Mesa Office of Economic Development to do that post back on 16 Feb
Why all that exuberant excitement in City Hall from the self-described "professional economic developers with expertise in site selection, marketing, sales, research, strategic planning, customer service, technical support, finance, and more" all about?
An announcement from days before that appeared in Global Trade Magazine
