By Gary Nelson | The Republic | azcentral.com
Daniel Burnham might say downtown Mesa needs a little work.
Burnham, who put together the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and all but invented the field of modern urban design, would notice, especially, that the area next to Mesa’s main municipal office building is nobody’s idea of beautiful.
There’s a bit of nice landscaping near the north entrance and some grass around the city buildings along First Street. But mostly it’s an asphalt desert dissected by Pepper Place, a narrow street that funnels cars into the parking lots.
