It wasn’t Black Friday, but the recent announcement of a sale at the City of Mesa Warehouse Surplus Store sparked a crowd this week.

April 27, 2005

More Mesa high school students will get the chance to do genome research, thanks to a $300,000 award from the Science Foundation Arizona.

The Yes for Mesa campaign is rapidly approaching a halfmillion dollars in contributions to print signs, mail literature and run television commercials, with the hope of convincing Mesa voters to approve property and sales tax increases later this month.

 Graffiti on stucco walls and a handful of abandoned grocery store carts may not be enough to prepare one for what's inside a boarded up Mesa home in ZIP code 85204.

The Mesa activist group Valley Business Owners asked a three-judge panel Wednesday to allow voters the chance to overturn a city utility rate increase.

The Mesa activist group Valley Business Owners asked a three-judge panel Wednesday to allow voters the chance to overturn a city utility rate increase.

Fresh off the failure of a city property tax in March, Mesa’s leaders are considering asking, once again, for a property tax to fund struggling city services.

Rex Griswold’s official campaign hangout is Anzio Landing, an Italian eatery near Falcon Field in Mesa that he built into a successful business but sold a few years ago. As the owner of the building, he still gets the run of the place.

A Chicago real estate trust made one of the largest plays in the Williams Gateway Airport area when it bought nearly 300 acres for a planned 3 million-square-foot business park that will feature office, industrial and retail space.

Mesa will pay $87,000 in the wake of a sexual harassment investigation that shattered the quiet of the city’s library earlier this year.

Mesa will not ask residents to approve a primary property tax that was expected to finally bring long-term financial stability to the city.

Mesa will not ask residents to approve a primary property tax that was expected to finally bring long-term financial stability to the city.

Fewer than four in 10 Mesa voters are willing to pay a city property tax, but poll numbers released Wednesday suggest more than six in 10 are open to a bond issue or a sales tax increase.

Fewer than four in 10 Mesa voters are willing to pay a city property tax, but poll numbers released Wednesday suggest more than six in 10 are open to a bond issue or a sales tax increase.

Mesa officials have approved a sweeping reorganization in the halls of city government that is aimed to make it more competitive with other major cities and to free up City Manager Chris Brady to work on economic development instead of the city’s internal problems.

There are two Riverview at Dobson retail centers planned in Mesa.

Mesa will find out early in the new year whether the Chicago Cubs will keep their spring-training program in Arizona or take up an offer for new facilities near Naples, Fla.

When Barry Bertani wanted to go somewhere special for dinner before catching a show at the Mesa Arts Center recently, he went to downtown Tempe. Dining in Mesa would have been more convenient for the 65-year-old Dobson Ranch resident, but, like many other Mesans, he feels downtown Mesa doesn’t have much to offer.

When Barry Bertani wanted to go somewhere special for dinner before catching a show at the Mesa Arts Center recently, he went to downtown Tempe. Dining in Mesa would have been more convenient for the 65-year-old Dobson Ranch resident, but, like many other Mesans, he feels downtown Mesa doesn’t have much to offer.

May 2, 2005

A proposed conference and athletics center would be a big boost to Mesa’s struggling Fiesta District — and it could even cause the area’s fortunes to rise before a shovel of dirt is turned.

A free bus route serving downtown Mesa has more than doubled ridership since it began service at the start of this year.

Mesa will stop charging two kinds of impact fees in 2012, including a controversial payment for cultural amenities that only recently survived a years-long legal challenge.