By Jim Walsh | East Valley Tribune
After decades of big plans followed by bigger disappointments, the foundations of new downtown Mesa are emerging as city leaders and developers look past the COVID-19 pandemic towards a brighter day.
Piece by piece, a new downtown is starting to come into focus, with the ASU@mesacitycenter as the epicenter and a constellation of large and small developments swirling around it.
Eventually, the new, high-tech, trendy downtown may make the present sleepy one virtually unrecognizable.