For months, business owners along Mesa’s Main Street in the city’s downtown have watched as light-rail construction crews slowly crept toward their area.

Metro will hold a groundbreaking Wednesday to celebrate a new light rail segment that will link downtown Mesa to Tempe and Phoenix.

Metro will hold a groundbreaking Wednesday to celebrate a new light rail segment that will link downtown Mesa to Tempe and Phoenix.

Metro will hold a groundbreaking Wednesday to celebrate a new light rail segment that will link downtown Mesa to Tempe and Phoenix.

It will be more than a month before crews are on Main Street to build the Metro extension to downtown Mesa, but a marketing campaign has begun to steer customers to the roughly 300 businesses that will be affected by light rail construction.

The Chicago Cubs have a $138 million economic impact in Arizona, but much of that money leaves Mesa because the team’s spring training complex doesn’t have a single business nearby.

The first microbrewery in all of Mesa will open this summer in downtown, following an initiative by the city and business owners to develop a more lively Main Street.

The Christmas lights at the Mesa Arizona Temple grounds are such a spectacle that ABC's Good Morning America once named them one of the top three holiday shows in the nation.

Downtown Mesa is aiming to boost local shopping by launching a gift card that's exclusive to businesses in the city's center.

To give people a sample of what to expect inside their new downtown Mesa business, its owners decided for just one night to perch a massive, animatronic angel of death at the front door.

Downtown Mesa is ditching its Grinch-like approach to the holidays with plans to string lights through the city center this year.

Downtown Mesa is ditching its Grinch-like approach to the holidays with plans to string lights through the city center this year.

Downtown Mesa is ditching its Grinch-like approach to the holidays with plans to string lights through the city center this year.

Downtown Mesa is ditching its Grinch-like approach to the holidays with plans to string lights through the city center this year.

Mesa is shooting fireworks off downtown buildings this weekend to wow 70,000 spectators, but the city hopes the pyrotechnics don't distract visitors from something else.

Main Street is starting to look a lot like the Mill Avenue of 10 years ago.

Main Street is starting to look a lot like the Mill Avenue of 10 years ago.

Main Street is starting to look a lot like the Mill Avenue of 10 years ago.

Main Street is starting to look a lot like the Mill Avenue of 10 years ago.

The POOL Together indoor market is closing after less than a year of operation in Mesa, leaving 29 merchants to scramble for new locations.

The once-endangered Motorcycles on Main event in downtown Mesa will continue this Friday evening - and into the future - with a new sponsor.

To revive downtown in the last couple of decades, Mesa revamped Main Street, poured $100 million into the state's largest arts center and tried to lure countless developments.

The threatened Motorcycles on Main monthly event will likely continue next year despite its creator pulling his sponsorship.

During David Short’s interview to become the chief of the Downtown Mesa Association, he was given a blunt description of what he’d face if he took the job.