The Bashas’-anchored Ridgeview Plaza in east Mesa has been sold after its former owner lost the center through bankruptcy.

Mesa's Marc Center plans to build a facility in the underserved east side of town. The 36,705-square-foot Marc Center East Vocational Training Facility planned for east Mesa, near Signal Butte Road on the south side of Main Street, would be in addition to the center's downtown site on Country Club Drive.

Brazil-based jet maker Embraer broke ground Monday on an $8 million service center at Mesa’s Williams Gateway Airport.

East Valley veterans will soon have a central location to meet with college advisers, find out about benefits and services, and network.

The operator of Mesa General and Tempe St. Luke's hospitals is planning a third East Valley hospital in a fast-growing area of Mesa.

November 11, 2004

December 20, 2004

Developers expect a new hospital planned in east Mesa to spur commercial development where a future stretch of Loop 202 will intersect with U.S. 60.

Victor Adcock isn’t living in Mesa — yet. But the city line is approaching and now stands about a half block away from his home near University Drive, east of Ellsworth Road. When Adcock moved into his home in 1987, he was the fourth house from the desert. Since then there’s been more development than he can keep track of, he said.

About two years ago, the Stechnij family held an open house to showcase their 30 year-old dairy farm in east Mesa to the public.

As construction of homes has expanded into southeast Mesa during the last decade, residents living near Elliot and Signal Butte roads have coped with waiting on fire and emergency crews sometimes nearly three times longer than the recommended national average.

After years of complaints that buses don’t go east of Power Road in Mesa, the city will test a new route starting in October to gauge whether residents really will use transit in the area.

An east Mesa Holiday Inn Express is slated to be razed and rebuilt as a full-service Holiday Inn. The 40-year-old motel-like property at 5750 E. Main St. will become a modern fivestory, 115-room hotel with interior corridors, full-service restaurant and shops, said East Valley owner-developer Shane Kuber.

One-third of Mesa is east of Power Road, yet the area is served by zero percent of the city’s bus system.

United Parcel Service is adding a second East Valley distribution center, which is expected to bring more than 300 jobs and 128 delivery trucks to east Mesa by 2007.

Kim Demaine says her selfesteem has improved since she first enrolled in the Marc Center’s Village Program in December.

An East Valley developer and downtown Mesa landowner is attempting to buy more property just west of the Arizona Mormon Temple.

September 26, 2004

The Center for Hope in Mesa still looks exactly like what it isn’t going to be.

An indoor Mesa aquatic center with two competitive swimming pools, a 10-meter diving tower, a 4,000-seat grandstand and therapy pool has given way to one outdoor pool.

An indoor Mesa aquatic center with two competitive swimming pools, a 10-meter diving tower, a 4,000-seat grandstand and therapy pool has given way to one outdoor pool.

January 14, 2005

Mesa is going upscale.