By Gary Nelson | East Valley Tribune
Plans for a world-class concert hall and music-education campus in downtown Mesa have taken a major detour after a city panel cleared the way for commercial-residential project on the site.
The project originally had been proposed for 10 acres formerly occupied for decades by the Brown & Brown Chevrolet dealership, just east of the Mesa Arts Center.
But that site now is on track to become a development that could add as many as 350 units to the already booming downtown housing market.
