By Tom Scanlon | East Valley Tribune (Photo via City of Mesa)
If this was a movie shoot, it might be “take 17.”
Back in the mid-1980s, the City of Mesa was so eager to flip a single-family neighborhood into a commercial development that it used eminent domain to forcefully purchase the properties, clearing the way for an eagerly-anticipated resort, conference and water park project.
Thirty-five years later … nada.