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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Mesa Gardens
144 units, $23.5M permit value
144-unit apartment community in six 3-story buildings with a clubhouse and maintenance building. Building permits were issued Jul 6; the civil permit, with a new 1-inch landscape meter, on Sep 14.
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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: new pool
$1.6M permit value
Commercial pool and spa at a new apartment complex; clubhouse and fitness-center buildings already permitted.
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Kaltech Expansion
$1.0M permit value
Two-story 5,564 sf addition to an existing 11,810 sf warehouse and office building; the permit includes civil and landscape.
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Commercial Development
4,689 sq ft, 1.3 acres
Ground-up (name for subscribers) convenience store (4,689 sf) with a 4,156 sf fuel canopy over six pumps, 15 parking spaces and underground fuel tanks.
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Elliot Rd data center (building 2)
Site work for a new 229,416 sf single-story data center: the Oct 6 civil permit covers all off-site improvements and the street frontage landscaping, with its own 2-inch landscape meter.
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Haven at Hawes
Onsite and offsite improvements for the Haven at Hawes community, issued Oct 6 with a pool meter and two landscape meters; a 3,143 sf amenity building beside the community pool went into review Oct 5.
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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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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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Greenfield Multifamily
30 units, 1.9 acres
Thirty two- and three-story townhome units in five buildings around a central pool, ramada and dog park, with attached garages and 15 guest parking spaces.
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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 (name for subscribers): 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 (name for subscribers) 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.
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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
Questions people ask
How can I find out about commercial projects in Mesa before they go out to bid?
Every commercial project in Mesa leaves a public trail long before anyone is hired: a rezoning or site plan on the Planning and Zoning Board agenda, a design review submittal, then a building permit. The staff reports and plans attached to those agendas name the developer, the architect, the civil engineer and often the landscape architect, with a scope and a schedule. Reading them every week is how you hear about a job months before the bid list is set. Groundwork does that reading and writes down who to call.
Where are Mesa's planning agendas and permits published?
Agendas, staff reports and minutes are on the City of Mesa's meeting calendar in Legistar, and commercial building permits are in the city's open data. Both are free to anyone. The work is in reading them every week and telling apart the projects that will need your trade from code amendments and paperwork.
Does a project on a Planning and Zoning agenda mean the job is happening?
Not on its own. Some items are decided at the board; others are recommendations that still need City Council, and the minutes that record the outcome are often published weeks later. A project usually becomes real when design review and permits follow. This page lists projects that have cleared a public step, and says which step that was.
How long after an approval does the work go out for pricing?
It varies with the type of project, but the gap between a public approval and construction drawings going out to price is usually months rather than weeks. That gap is the window where a call lands before a bid list exists.
Is all of this public information?
Yes. Everything here comes from records anyone can read, and the links above show where they are. What Groundwork adds is the weekly reading, the judgment about which jobs fit your trade, and the contacts gathered in one place.
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