Farmers Look to Develop 860 Acres, Leave Area
By Lily Altavena for The Arizona Republic As he looks out at acre after acre of his dairy farm, Jim Boyle Jr. is not wistful at the idea of leaving the land his family has farmed for 40 years. He’s hopeful. “The East Valley had a large number of dairies, and they’ve all been replaced by development,” he said. “Which, you […]
Greenfield Water Plant to Undergo Expansion
By Wayne Schutsky for East Valley Tribune The Greenfield Water Reclamation Plant will undergo a $48M expansion to increase capacity and provide increased wastewater treatment services for Mesa and Gilbert. Mesa, Gilbert and Queen Creek share ownership of the plant, which began as a lift station in 1999. The facility later underwent a Phase II […]
EdgeConneX May Expand Data Center Ops
By AZBEX Staff for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Holding companies operated by global technology solutions provider EdgeConneX have recently purchased nearly 55 undeveloped acres in Mesa’s Elliot Road Technology Corridor, according to a recent report in Business Real Estate Weekly of Arizona. Loop 202 & Elliot Road LLC (c/o EdgeConneX Holdings LLC) paid $10.2M for the […]
Opus Building 148KSF Spec Industrial in Mesa
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange In conjunction with a ceremonial groundbreaking this week, The Opus Group announced plans for a 148KSF speculative industrial project in the Longbow Business Park and Golf Club in Mesa. Construction for Longbow Gateway One should start this month, with completion expected for the end of January. Located near […]
Mesa, Developer Moving Ahead on Dtwn Project
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange One downtown Mesa redevelopment project took the next step forward recently as the City and 3W Management put in place a Memorandum of Understanding agreeing to basic terms and conditions and extending negotiation timelines until the end of the year. Under the proposed plan, 3W will extensively redevelop […]
ASU Zeroes in on Bond Money Projects
By Rebekah Morris for Arizona Builder’s Exchange Note: All projects listed below are in the preliminary internal planning stages, and the finance mechanism is not yet determined. One of the notable items in the budget passed by the Arizona state legislature last month was the authorization for the three state universities to sell an additional […]
Mesa Ponders Transit Options
By Gary Nelson for East Valley Tribune The East Valley’s growing network of trains and trolleys could grow even more thanks to recent action by the Mesa City Council. During this spring’s round of budget discussions, the council agreed to spend $1.2M to study two possible transit projects: Extending the Tempe streetcar line into the […]
The Next Go ‘Round for Fiesta Mall
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange After more than a decade of decline bordering on freefall, Mesa’s long-suffering Fiesta Mall has once again changed hands, this time to a local developer with plans to turn the once-dominant retail center into a “Campus” that will primarily target medical learning, community colleges and for-profit schools. Cashen […]
DFT to Build Data Center Campus in Mesa
Source: MesaNow/City of Mesa DuPont Fabros Technology Inc., a leading owner, developer, operator, and manager of multi-tenant wholesale data centers, has announced it has purchased an undeveloped 56.5-acre site on Crismon Road just north of Elliot Road in Mesa’s Elliot Road Technology Corridor. The company plans to develop a data center campus with capacity for […]
New Zoning for FUJIFILM $34M Expansion
By Roland Murphy for Arizona Builder’s Exchange High-tech manufacturer FUJIFILM Electronic Materials USA Inc. hopes to continue the success it has enjoyed in Mesa by spending up to $34M in capital projects to expand facilities, including a 20-acre site immediately west of its current location. To make current development and planned future projects more simple […]