Parts of Mesa Police Officer-Involved Video Released {Updated]

 It took a few months to get released, but an edited version was released yesterday missing the actual shooting and Daniel Shaver begging for this life

CBS affiliate KPHO just released this one hour ago [excerpted context, but here's a link to the entire report >> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/unsealed-arizona-police-video-omits-shooting-of-unarmed-man-daniel-shaver/
[Blogger's Note: image to the right that shows the head of Daniel Shaver on the floors after the shooting is not in the redacted video]
PHOENIX -- "Video released Tuesday shows officers responding to a report of someone pointing a gun from the window of an Arizona hotel, but a judge barred the release of additional footage showing an officer later shooting and killing an unarmed man at the scene. . .
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sam Myers ordered portions of the video released after Shaver's widow and news organizations called for it to be unsealed as a way to hold police accountable and serve the public interest.
However, the order bars the public release of the face-to-face encounter between officers and Shaver until Brailsford's case is resolved.
Investigators said in police records and in court that the video shows Shaver on the ground outside his room as he is ordered to crawl toward officers and tearfully pleads with them not to kill him. Officers at the scene say they believed Shaver was reaching for a gun.
No weapons were recovered from Shaver's body . . ."

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Arizona’s Catholic universities form coalition

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May 23, 2016
Arizona’s four private Catholic institutions of higher education have formed a coalition, Catholic Universities of Arizona, to support each other’s mission and to help students of all faiths complete an education that is meaningful and values-based.

“Benedictine University at Mesa has become such an important resource providing higher education opportunities in the East Valley with the support of the Diocese of Phoenix,” said Charlie Gregory, campus executive officer. “Our steady growth since arriving in Arizona in 2012 demonstrates our commitment to helping local students succeed. We look forward to identifying other opportunities to partner with the Diocese and the Catholic Universities of Arizona.

The four schools in the association include Benedictine University in Mesa, The College of St. Scholastica in Mesa and Phoenix, Saint Xavier University in Gilbert, and the University of Mary on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe. A shared website, www.azcatholic.org, can help prospective students sort out the various programs while remaining confident of their common Catholic identity.
“The Catholic Universities of Arizona offer a substantial list of degree programs that have at their center the development of the whole individual,” said Maria Laughner, Arizona regional director for College of St. Scholastica. “Together, we are proving that a private values-based education is not only affordable, it is within reach. The College of St. Scholastica is proud to be a part of such a community-based effort.”
The endeavor is endorsed by and works closely with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix advocating and promoting the benefits of Catholic higher education. The coalition also supports and encourages awareness among the Valley’s elementary and high school providers, building a pipeline of opportunities at the collegiate level and in the future.

“We believe that by combining efforts in the same mission, more students will be reached and stronger, more comprehensive programming can be developed,” added MaryBeth Mueller, superintendent of schools for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. “The point of this coalition is to meet the needs of those seeking an educational experience infused with moral values and service, and this will happen best through a collaborative effort.”
In all, more than 25 degrees at the bachelors, masters and doctorate level will be available at Arizona’s Catholic universities.
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Arizona's Catholic universities form coalition

The Catholic Sun-16 hours ago

Arizona's four private Catholic institutions of higher education have formed a ... The four schools in the association include Benedictine University in Mesa, . . .

  

Multi-Unit Rental Properties Hit The Sales Block Big Time

Canada’s Western Wealth Capital Goes on a Shopping Spree in Phoenix

Buys 4-Property Apartment Portfolio, 300 Condos and a Fifth Complex
By Mark Heschmeyer
May 23, 2016

Western Wealth Capital Ltd., a Vancouver, Canada-based multiple-unit rental property investment firm, has become quite active in the Phoenix multifamily market this month.

This week, it has acquired the Greater PHX IV Portfolio, a four-property, 748-unit, real-estate-owned portfolio for $41.5 million (about $55,480/unit).

Last week it acquired 300 of the 440 total units in Signature Place Condominiums in Tempe, AZ, for $40 million (about $133,000 per unit).

And last month, Western Wealth Capital spent $27.25 million for the 397 unit-Valencia Crossing in Mesa (about $68,640/unit).

View property locations here >> https://vimeo.com/user43757085

Greater PHX IV Portfolio “has great geographic diversification throughout metropolitan Phoenix and tremendous operational scale,” said Cliff David, a senior director of Marcus & Millichap’s National Multi Housing Group in Phoenix. “These aspects, combined with the opportunity to enhance a significant portion of the unit interiors at each asset, will enable Western Wealth Capital to advance revenue while leveraging the exterior and common area improvements completed by the seller during their ownership tenure.”

David, and Steve Gebing, a senior director of the firm’s Institutional Property Advisors (IPA) division, represented the seller of the portfolio and procured the buyer.

The properties are as follows.

• Sandal Ridge, 645 N. Country Club Drive, 196 units developed in 1979 on the periphery of downtown Mesa.
• Penny Lane, 544 E. Southern Ave., developed in Mesa in 1985 featuring 136 units, each equipped with full-size washer and dryer connections
• Las Vistas at Papago Park, 1010 N. 48th St., a 200-unit community built in 1982 and situated in the Camelback East Village of Phoenix
• Desert Wind, 4141 W. McDowell Road, a 216-apartment community in West Phoenix developed in two phases in 1987 and featuring second-story vaulted ceilings and controlled-access, gated entry

Western Wealth Capital’s purchase of the Greater PHX IV Portfolio follows two other multifamily transactions within the past five weeks.

Last week, Western Wealth Capital purchased 300 units at Signature Place Condominiums in Tempe for $40 million.

Originally built in 1996 and converted to condominiums in 2006, Signature Place occupies nearly 24-acres with 48 total buildings located in the South Tempe submarket near Discovery Business Campus, ASU Research Park and the Price Technology Corridor in Chandler, AZ. It includes one, two- and three-bedroom units with a weighted average size of 1,000 square feet.

ABI Multifamily, a multifamily brokerage and advisory services firm, represented both Western Wealth and the seller, Minnesota-based Mercury Investment.

“88% of the units have a proven path for terrific upside in rent potential through modern interior upgrades," said Doug Lazovick, partner at ABI, who along with ABI partner Eddie Chang, arranged the sale.

“Western Wealth Capital believes Phoenix is a strong real estate market with indications it will continue to remain healthy. With improved employment opportunities, affordable housing is a priority for tenants,” said Janet LePage, a founder of Western Wealth Capital. “We are bullish on the Valley and continue to seek more multifamily acquisitions.”

With these purchases, Western Wealth Capital now owns 21 multifamily properties and 3,487 units in the Phoenix area.

For more information on the Greater PHX IV Portfolio sale, see CoStar Comp # 3599843.

For more information on the Signature Place sale, see CoStar Comp #3586993.

For more information on the Valencia Crossing sale, see CoStar Comp # 3563146.

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Hey! Whatever Happened to "The Minutes" of City Council Meetings??

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Swearing to Open Data, transparency and accountability in government the Mesa City Council is anything but that .... read the hype here [it's a copy-and-paste]
Mesa operates under a charter form of government with citizens electing a mayor and six councilmembers to set policy for the City.
Mesa's councilmembers serve terms of four-years, with three members being elected every two years. The mayor is elected at-large every four years. The mayor and council are elected on a non-partisan basis [Blogger's Note: All Republicans?] The vice mayor is selected by the City Council . . . [ Blogger's Note: All suit-and-tie guys in shades of gray?]
The Mesa City Council believes that its people, not leaders, are what makes a City great [Blogger's Note: Really?]  and actively works to encourage citizen participation in the decision-making process. Whether it is through neighborhood meetings, advisory boards and committees, telephone calls and letters, or email, the Mesa City Council sets policies based on the input and needs of its citizens. 
Mayor John Giles
Councilmember Dave Richins - District 1
Councilmember Alex Finter - District 2
Vice Mayor Dennis Kavanaugh - District 3
Councilmember Christopher Glover - District 4
Councilmember David Luna- District 5
Councilmember Kevin Thompson - District 6
[Blogger's Note: Test the links e.g..where do they go?]

 

How many people - 465,00 who live here in Mesa in any of six districts - know who their Mesa City Council is? .... or for what matter what he or she [Blogger's Notes: there are no women in the Mesa City Council] actually is doing to represent the citizens who elect them?

Apparently, checking this link for the Calendar Schedule of meetings, agendas and meeting minutes, HIT THE LINK AND TAKE A LOOK [Blogger's Note: Let's Play Ball!] >> http://mesa.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx there are no what's called "meeting minutes" available for meetings that happened as long ago as three weeks ago !

If you didn't attend the meeting in-person, or watch it on Mesa Channel 11 - sorry, but you are totally left in the dark - simply 'not available'

Crazy that in the fast-world we live where access is quick and instantaneous, and real-time transcription apps available, the read-able part is simply "NOT AVAILABLE"

 



Silent for Months, Mesa Royale Residents Speak Up Today About The Mesa City Council

Things went 'under the radar' for a while about Mesa Royale Mobile Home Park that first got attention almost a year ago in an article written by Arizona Republic news reporter Maria Polletta on June 15, 2015 and featured in a post on this blog.
Update to this story: this is the original parcel of land targeted by the Mesa City Council to get developed for the ASU Downtown Mesa campus that's now under consideration right now for approval in a different location next to City Hall.

If the back-handed land deal had gone according to plans, the residents of the trailer park would have gotten kicked out of their homes and the property cleared and bulldozed by now [six months later] to make way for the 2500-student ASU satellite campus.
It didn't work out that way - find out why tonight at 5 o'clock' and who "the insiders inside City Hall politics" are.

MesaZona POV: An Artist With A Social Conscience

Your MesaZona watched in real time over the course of days unidentified figures using a hydraulic lift and scaffolding to scale the heights of a 35-foot high blank concrete wall at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum.
What appeared is titled "Desert Rose: New Generations".
It's a beautiful eye-catching work of public art in the Creative Place Making urban landscape here downtown.
Temporary banners were previously used to announce exhibitions @ MCAM. This one looks permanent.

It is a commissioned exterior work and part of one of the four inside gallery exhibition spaces that opened to the public on Friday, May 13, 2016.
It's one thing just looking at art and passing by, but when we have the opportunity to meet and interact with a world-renowned artist here in The New Urban DTMesa that certainly "makes my day" happy to live downtown one block away from the Mesa Arts Center. Admittedly, the close proximity to an urban airspace is one consideration to have made the decision to live here.

More than 30 years ago [gosh, is yours truly dating himself?], spray-paint graffiti was considered vandalism and cracked-down on in New York City - it appeared everywhere spontaneously all over - on the sides of drab gray underground subway cars and above ground on public buildings next to empty unused lots and in densely-populated neighborhoods, low-income and high-income. There were campaigns to remove "graffiti", cans of spray paint were locked up behind closed doors, graffiti artists who "made their mark" were hunted down and arrested, until artists who emerged in the public eye became very popular and famous - there was no stopping them from expressing themselves with vibrant colors, images boundless and unrestrained right in-your-face wherever you went in New York City.

Yours truly had the pleasure to know more than a few now-called "aerosol artists" way back when art took a quantum leap rocking what was the art establishment.

Here on the scene in Mesa thirty years later, the artist known as "El Mac" made a huge public impression for sure.
On a personal level, he is one of the most humble and sublime major art figures yours truly has ever met.
At the opening reception ten days ago a friend of his who's a photographer told me he's a hermit, disappearing for days to create works-in-progress. That may be the case for an artist to make his personal space his own in act of creating art, but in public he doesn't hesitate to engage people in soft-spoken conversations when they want to meet him. Likewise with the many children who wanted to know more.
Here's a link to a nice article

LA muralist El Mac brings graffiti style to Mesa

"El Mac: Aerosol Exalted" features portraits of everyday people painted with street-art flair.

Kerry Lengel, The Republic | azcentral.com 7:16 a.m. MST May 20, 2016

 

http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/arts/2016/05/20/el-mac-aerosol-exalted-mesa-arts-center/84623330/

Reach the reporter at kerry.lengel@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4896.

Looking At Public Art #5: TRUTH OR FOG JUICE?

Blogger Pre-Note: this post may be too subtle for some readers but here's one reaction looking at public art.
Gotta say that the many installations of public art here in The New Urban DTMesa most certainly make "the original one-square mile" a Creative Place . . . it's not so square or for that matter conservative any more.
If you need a reason to take a walk, looking at public art might be a good one to exercise your body and brain at the same time, with plenty of stops for a good brew, water or coffee/tea, ice cream, a snack or sandwich or lunch.
We've enjoyed the many figures cast in bronze all over the sidewalks for years - everything from figures of founding pioneer families and early settlers and business leaders, to bears, salmon, boys playing baseball, girls reading, people sitting on benches talking or waiting, horses, a huge fat pig, dinosaurs, a boy-and-girl playing with the world's deadliest killing weapon and ducks getting fed crackers [both at City Hall], a climber, a newspaper boy-on-a-bike with dog running alongside, neon-inspired aerosol art on the sides of historic buildings, design lab mini-murals on the fronts of buildings along Main Street, move-able panels by Creative Catalysts, a big pink chair, a big high-heeled shoe, a gold Humpty Dumpty, the super-sized "Desert Rose" [ sub-titled New Generations/Nuevas Generations ], Sunset Park in 1st Street, monumental Valley Metro Public Art at all three light rail stations and transformer stations along the Main Street line extension and this one in front of The Drew Building.
While there's a new emphasis on interactive public art [Twilight Garden @ Morris Park + Musical Shadows @ Mesa Arts Center, this one is "a silent shout" about the news and how we get it - or not.
The big headline = TRUTH in capital letters . . . juxtaposed in the background is FOG JUICE.

A fog machine, fog generator, or smoke machine is a device that emits a dense vapor that appears similar to fog or smoke. This artificial fog is most commonly used in professional entertainment applications, . . . Fog machines can also be found in use in a variety of industrial, training, and some military applications. . .This fluid (often referred to colloquially as fog juice) vaporizes or atomizes inside the fog machine. Upon exiting the fog machine and mixing with cooler outside air, the vapor condenses resulting in a thick visible fog.