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"Here's the great John Giles . . ." That's the introduction from the announcer of May's Mesa Morning Live segment with the sponsor guest one week ago > 5 views in a week. WOW! Huh . . . it's getting way-too-easy for your MesaZona blogger to poke some more at "Hizzoner The Mayor" He's such a goofy guy talking about anything. Mesa Morning Live Sponsor Guest: John Giles Views: 5
It certainly looks like the selection of Phoenix-based knoodle Advertising to lead brand integration, public relations and UX/web initiatives for the Grande Vita campus being built in Mesa, AZ. is paying off for the developer BioCity Enterprises. Take a look at the ground-breaking event in the high winds over the empty tract of land where the only thing seen in the background is (once again) a Marriott Hotel. Already anchoring that campus north of U.S. 60 near Crismon Road is a 127-room Residence Inn by Marriott at 10243 E. Hampton Ave., said Don Helton, director of business development for Brycon in Chandler.
Kelly Copeland, co-owner and COO of BioCity Enterprises, said the entire campus will take about three years to build.
In December 2018 he said the $200 million total development cost doesn't include the cost to develop the $20 million hotel
Hizzoner John Giles leads the ground-breaking team saying "We're gonna dump it in 4 . . ."
Covering Mesa: Grande Vita Ground breaking Views: 48
_________________________________________________________________________________ Here's the press release three months before
Grande Vita, A BioCity Enterprise Selects knoodle for Public Relations, Digital, Creative, and Web Design
The agency will be representing the $200 Million project
PHOENIX (PRWEB)February 21, 2019
BioCity Enterprises has selected Phoenix based knoodle Advertising to lead brand integration, public relations and UX/web initiatives for the Grande Vita campus being built in Mesa, AZ. This “Aging in Place” facility will change health care with an expansive continuum of care with unmatched luxury and amenities. This is a $200 million project. . .
"Grande Vita by BioCity is going to have a tremendous impact in the city of Mesa as well as the Valley as a whole. We couldn’t be more excited as an agency to be a part of what they are doing in the fields of health care and assisted living,” said Rosaria Cain, CEO of knoodle Advertising. “Grande Vita is the first facility of its kind and will change health care as we know it,”Cain continued.
Some of the major players involved in this 700,000 square foot project are
BioCity Enterprises
Khangura Development
Brycon
Kevin Howard Architects
Robinette Architects Inc.
Laurie Carroll & Associates
and 34th Floor Hospitality.
In addition to all the medical and assisted living facilities, there are a planned 9 dining establishments for Grande Vita which 34th Floor will design and manage.
20 hours ago - The BioCity Enterprises campus isn't a static building, it's an ... of care, all the way through,” says Kelly Copeland, COO of BioCity Enterprises. ... When general contractor Brycon Construction completes the project in 2022, the ...
Here's an announcement from Orion Investment Real Estate yesterday
$300M Grande Vita Project Breaks Ground in Mesa
Article originally posted on AZ Big Media on May 22, 2019
"In an ever-crowded senior living market, Grande Vita will clearly stand out. The BioCity Enterprises campus isn’t a static building, it’s an ever-evolving community based on the needs of its residents. . .
“You can come live in a condo, you have independent living, assisted living, you have memory care and you have hospice; so you have the continuum of care, all the way through,” says Kelly Copeland, COO of BioCity Enterprises. “And then we have an urgent care, we have a lab and we have about 15 other businesses, including about 10 restaurants.”
Grande Vita, A BioCity Campus, broke ground on a 20-acre, multi-use, campus-style community at Crismon Road and Hampton Avenue in Mesa. This $300 million project by Khangura Development, also celebrated the ribbon-cutting for the new Residence Inn by Marriott, which opens this month and was the first phase of the Grande Vita development . . “The 500 new jobs is the easy part of this, but in reality, this is about starting to change,” says Bill Jabjiniak, Director of Economic Development for the City of Mesa. “This is the growth of healthcare, this is aging in place and it’s always great to have a new hotel product. There are so many different dimensions. What we like about the assisted living, the medical component, it’s all very walkable.”
Construction on the site will begin in August with the digging of three, three-story underground parking structures for the campus. When general contractor Brycon Construction completes the project in 2022, the campus will encompass nearly 700,000 square feet of independent and assisted living, hotel rooms, multiple dining options, medical offices, a luxury tower and luxury condos, nursing school and rehab clinic spread out over 20 acres. “The difference between us and everyone else who is doing this is we own all of the facets of the campus,” Copeland said. “Grande Vita is the branding for everything. So the 10 restaurants, they’re Grande Vita restaurants, so the menu is our menu. The pharmacy is our pharmacy and the lab is our lab.”
Mesa Mayor John Giles emphasizes Grande Vita’s positive impact on the City of Mesa. “Grande Vita is the future of senior living,” Mayor John Giles said. “The concept of having residential, entertainment, medical and other quality of life amenities in a single campus along with medical research and hundreds of jobs is how my generation will comfortably age in place.”
BioCity plans to incorporate a high-end resort-style design into Grande Vita, complete with reflecting pools, pergolas, fountains, and green roofs. With the majority of parking underground, the campus will feel less like a medical facility and more like a university, with winding pedestrian walkways and bridges . . . For the 11,500 people turning 65 each day, communities like Grande Vita will provide a comfortable lifestyle and peace of mind of receiving top-of-the-line healthcare services.
“If you look at the demographics, you’ll see that the senior population is already here,” Jabjiniak said. “There will be more coming. This project is really a vision that is unique and it’s not just another senior living facility by itself, it’s integrated."
Taking the time to learn a name is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the person’s identity. Many Americans - including Hizzoner John Giles the mayor of our city - have been conditioned to think that nothing other than English is worth pronouncing. This includes people’s names that are not necessarily within the American standard. They usually have a difficult time with non-European names and minority names. . . .but even when told how to pronounce someone's name, what's the excuse?
Looks like John Giles really needs to get that message when he messes up the name of the person for the opening invocation at Monday's Mesa City Council meeting, ". . . I'm sorry Pastor, even though you told me how to pronounce your name , I butchered it. "
Hizzoner's Mess-up starts half-a-minute into this uploaded streaming video just before the Reverend Dr. Brooke's Invocation
City Council Meeting - 5/20/2019
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Duration: 54:57
There is also a notion that those who choose not to pronounce the name are “bad at names.” It should not matter if someone is bad at articulating names. Taking the time to learn a name is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the person’s identity Names hold power, and by denying a person the right to at least have their name attempted to be spoken correctly is denying them agency to themselves.
Hidden in plain sight: here are not one but four maps published last year in an online investigative report by Ryan Gallagher and Henrik Moltke on The Intercept .Much has previously been reported about the NSA’s surveillance programs. But few details have been disclosed about the physical infrastructure that enables the spying. They revealed for the first time a series of other buildings across the U.S. that appear to serve a similar function, as critical parts of one of the world’s most powerful electronic eavesdropping systems, hidden in plain sight. _________________________________________________________________________ Blogger Note: Phoenix is "a background node" _________________________________________________________________________ “It’s eye-opening and ominous the extent to which this is happening right here on American soil,”said Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. “It puts a face on surveillance that we could never think of before in terms of actual buildings and actual facilities in our own cities, in our own backyards.”
The NSA documents, which come from the trove provided to The Intercept by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, describe AT&T as having been “aggressively involved” in aiding the agency’s surveillance programs. . . Without an individualized court order, it is illegal for the NSA to spy on communications that are wholly domestic, such as emails sent back and forth between two Americans living in Texas. However, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the agency began eavesdropping on Americans’ international calls and emails that were passing between the U.S. and other countries. That practice was exposed by the New York Timesin 2005 and triggered what became known as the “warrantless wiretapping” scandal. . . In April 2017, the agencypublicly acknowledgedtheseviolations, which it described as “inadvertent compliance incidents.” It said that it would no longer use surveillance programs authorized under Section 702 of FISA to harvest messages that mentioned its targets, citing “technological constraints, United States person privacy interests, and certain difficulties in implementation.” The messages that the NSA had unlawfully collected were swept up using a method of surveillance known as “upstream,” which the agency still deploys for other surveillance programs authorized under both Section 702 of FISA and Executive Order 12333. The upstream method involves tapping into communications as they are passing across internet networks . . .
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One of the National Security Agency’s most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse. Today, The Intercept is publishing 48 top-secret and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, which shed new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy system > https://theintercept.com/2015/07/01/nsas-google-worlds-private-communications/
$300 million Grande Vita project breaks ground in Mesa
May 21, 2019 at 2:15 pm
Grande Vita, A BioCity Campus, has brokenground on a 20 acre, multi-use, campus-style community at Crismon Road and Hampton Avenue in Mesa. This $300 Million project by Khangura Development, will allow seniors to "age in place". The concept is designed to create a virtuous circle in which clinical healthcare delivery and research & development co-exist on the same campus to deliver state-of-the-art medical care and translational research in an environment in which society's brightest and best want to live, work and innovate . . "
WHAT? The byline usually used by city officials is "Live, Work & Play"
When completed, the campus will encompass nearly 700,000 square feet of independent and assisted living, hotel rooms, multiple dining options, medical offices, a luxury tower and luxury condos, nursing school and rehab clinic spread out over 20 acres. . . BioCity plans to incorporate a high-end resort-style design in to Grande Vita Contact: Ross Trumble c-602-793-3435rrosst@knoodle.com
_______________________________________________________________ Back in December of last year it was a $200-Million project
"On December 10, the City of Mesa moved forward a plan for a 20 acre, multi-use, campus-style community . . . A 127-room Residence Inn by Marriott is the first project to be completed on the campus and will be open in January of 2019.
_______________________________________________________________ The campus is nearly 700,000 square feet of independent and assisted living, hotel rooms, multiple dining options, medical offices, a luxury tower and luxury condos, nursing school and rehab clinic. . . Groundbreaking for Grande Vita will take place on May 21st, 2019.
Brycon has already been on site since last year and completed the first part of the overall project, which is the Residence Inn by Marriot, which is on site.
That extended stay hotel will open to the public in May of 2019, just ahead of the official ground breaking on the campus. . ."
O Yeah! High-End Assisted Living!This certainly looks like the future kind-of-place that might appeal and get sold to well-off Senior "Golden-Agers
Mayor John Giles emphasizes Grande Vita's positive impact on the City of Mesa. "Grande Vita is the future of senior living," Mayor John Giles said
. "The concept of having residential, entertainment, medical and other quality of life amenities in a single campus along with medical research and hundreds of jobs is how my generation will comfortably age in place."
Groundbreaking for Grande Vita will take place on May 21st, 2019.
