If it seems like a lot of industrial buildings have been going up in southeast Mesa the last few years, your eyes are not deceiving you: the region is one
Like spring flowers popping up in gardens and lots around town, what can be called âIndustrial Mesaâ is in bloom.
In the southeastern corner of the city, big chunks of land remain undeveloped â but not for long.
Development plans zipped through approval phases for multiple projects that will throw up huge warehouses and other industrial buildings.
Mayor John Giles, Economic Development Director William Jabjiniak and others have joked about âlanding some big fishâ with recent deals.
Google, the prized marlin, has been hard to reel in.
Earlier this year, Jabjiniak said he expected Google to break down on a massive campus near Sossaman and Elliot road this spring.
If this was a movie shoot, it might be âtake 17.â
Back in the mid-1980s, the City of Mesa was so eager to flip a single-family neighborhood into a commercial development that it used eminent domain to forcefully purchase the properties, clearing the way for an eagerly-anticipated resort, conference and water park project.Â
Thirty-five years later ⦠nada.
Near the busy corner of Mesa and University drives, a chunk of ugly, dirt lots sit behind the office of Maricopa Adult Probation as the land patiently waits for someone to take it out of development jail.Â
The water park was dunked, other ideas ranged from pop flies to strikeouts. So, 25 acres of prime, city-owned land remain a blank canvas waiting for an idea.