This week's projects
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ER2
155,597 sq ft, 8.7 acres
Build-to-suit 155,597 sf light-industrial building (40 ft tall) with entry plaza, covered amenity patio and 238 parking spaces.
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Craftsman — Phase II (4 shell buildings)
$5.2M permit value
Two 7,584 sf shell office buildings, a 6,065 sf shell retail building, and a 5,191 sf shell with drive-through. One permit includes civil; no water meters in this phase.
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The Core
$1.6M permit value
Commercial pool and spa at a new apartment complex; clubhouse and fitness-center buildings already permitted.
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Park Place at Gallery Park
305 units, $53.8M permit value
305-unit apartment community: one 4-story 281-unit building, two 3-story buildings, pool pavilion, ramadas. Permit includes civil and landscape; two 1-inch landscape water meters.
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Boeing ACA Expansion
263,386 sq ft, 38 acres
Single-story, 60-ft-tall, 263,386 sf fabrication building for carbon military parts on Boeing's Mesa campus.
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Homestead at Eastmark
261 units, 11.7 acres
Three-story, 261-unit apartment community plus ~10,840 sf of retail/commercial on 2.2 acres.
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Bella Norte
210 units, 9.31 acres
210-unit, three-story rental community in ten buildings on 9.31 acres downtown, with pool and spa, playground, pickleball, dog park and a multi-use trail.
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Park North
78 units, 5 acres
Rezone commercial land to RM-3-PAD for a 78-lot attached single-residence (townhome) community.
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BHSM Mesa Rehab Expansion
At-risk grading permit to start site work before the building permit; contractor trailers approved until May 21, 2027.
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Legacy Park
196.3 acres
Rezone 196 acres to a Planned Community for Legacy Park, a high-end mixed-use center by developer Vestar: luxury hotel, upscale retail and restaurants, class A offices and apartments around a 20+ acre park.
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Hawes Crossing Village 7
153.5 acres
Rezone ~103 acres to small-lot residential and ~51 acres to commercial/mixed use ahead of an Arizona State Land Department auction.
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Faith Christian School
9.9 acres
Council Use Permit for a private school in an existing campus (owner Leman Academy of Excellence); adds shade canopies.
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San Antonio Tire Shop
4,015 sq ft, 0.4 acres
4,015 sf auto-repair shop on a 0.4-acre lot; heavy neighbor opposition over parking.
+ 2 more first published this week: subscribers have them now; they appear here next week.
How a commercial project moves through Mesa
Most commercial jobs pass through several public steps before anyone is hired to build them. Each step leaves records, and each one is a chance to hear about the job before the bid list is set.
Planning and Zoning Board
Hears rezonings, site plans and other land-use cases in public. Some items are decided there; others are recommendations that still need City Council. A project on this agenda usually has a site plan, a landscape plan and a named development team in its staff report, often months before any building permit.
Design Review Board
Looks at how a project will look: buildings, materials, landscape and the street edge. By this stage the plans are usually well developed.
Planning Hearing Officer and Board of Adjustment
Handle smaller requests such as use permits and variances. Small on paper, but they often mark a building being reused or expanded.
City Council
Makes the final call on rezonings and many recommendations, and awards the city's own contracts. Its minutes stay in draft for months, so an outcome is usually confirmed from the next meeting's records.
Building permits
The last public step before work starts. A commercial permit names the job, its value and who applied; by then most of the team is chosen, so the earlier hearings are where the time is.
Where the public records are
Everything on this page comes from records anyone can read. If you want to follow them yourself, start here:
- City of Mesa meeting calendar (agendas, staff reports, minutes)
- City of Mesa open data (building permits)
- Maricopa County Assessor parcel map
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