Mesa juggles downtown growth, livability

The Brookings Institution is working with Mesa officials and business and community leaders to reinvigorate downtown without displacing people who already live there./(Tom Sanfilippo/Inside Out Aerial/ East Valley Tribune

By Wayne Schutsky | East Valley Tribune

Mesa wants to reinvigorate the city’s downtown core by making the area a hub for business and innovation – and do it without displacing the residents who already call it home.

Over the past few years, the Brookings Institution – the Washington D.C.-based think tank – evaluated Mesa’s potential as the site of a future innovation district.

The goal is to bring more prosperity to more Mesa residents, Mayor John Giles said.

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