By Gary Nelson | East Valley Tribune
What probably is the most highly anticipated redevelopment project in the history of southwest Mesa has at last made it onto a City Council agenda.
Final approval probably won’t come until October, at the earliest. But it would put the seal of city approval on a total makeover of the northwest corner of Alma School Road and Southern Avenue.
The 16-acre tract, formerly the Fiesta Village shopping center, has moldered behind chain-link fences for more than a decade, a victim both of shoppers’ changing tastes and of the Great Recession, which decimated construction projects throughout the Southeast Valley.
