Officials break ground on long-awaited Mesa Grande Visitors Center

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Hohokam Groundbreaking

Forthcoming Mesa Grande Ruins Visitors Center: A conceptual drawing of what the Mesa Grande Ruins Visitors Center will look like when it is completed sometime in early 2013. City officials and historic preservation officials broke ground on the approximate 1,000-square-foot cneter at 1000 Date Street in Mesa on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of City of Mesa)

Hohokam Groundbreaking

Mesa city officials, historic preservation officials and members of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community break ground on the Mesa Grande Ruins Visitors Center at 1000 Date Street near Brown Road in west Mesa on Tuesday. (Mike Sakal/Tribune)

Hohokam Groundbreaking

Sam Lewis, 93, of Payson, who is one of three suriving grandchildren of Elmer and Anna Rebecca Lewis of Mesa, attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the Mesa Grande Ruins Visitors Center at 1000 Date Street in Mesa on Tuesday. Lewis still gets emotional when talking about what the 6-acre site with a 27-foot mound meant to him as a boy growing up there in the 1920s. The center, which also will include a walking trail, is scheduled to be completed in early 2013. (Mike Sakal/Tribune)

Hohokam Groundbreaking

Stephanie Wright, co-chair of the Mesa Grande Community Alliance (center), Mesa Mayor Scott Smith (far right) and Dale Marr (left, president of Concord General Contracting) helpd break ground for the Mesa Grande Ruins Visitors Center at 1000 Date Street off near Brown Road in west Mesa on Tuesday. the approximate 1,000-square-foot center is scheduled to be completed in early 2013. (Mike Sakal/Tribune)