Mesa Mayor Scott Smith on Thursday delivered his State of the City address. He looked toward 2013 as a year for economic and job growth, on the heels of a big 2012.
Some 1.4 million passengers passed through Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport, and two new airlines, Frontier and Spirit, came to be a part of it.
As if that expansion wasn’t enough, leaders broke ground for the new Chicago Cubs spring training facility. The Valley’s light rail system will also be adding 3.1 miles of light rail right through the heart of Downtown Mesa.