Photo via Casey Blake | City of Mesa
(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents CaliberCos.)
By Scott Shumaker | East Valley Tribune
Many multifamily residential projects are slated to open in downtown Mesa in the near future, but if ZenCity sticks to its estimated timeline, the six-story structure will have risen on a more compressed schedule than the other highly anticipated projects there.
And many who live near downtown may eye it for another reason: to see if a full-service grocery store materializes on the ground floor as teased at the ZenCity groundbreaking last week.
A spokesman for Caliber Development said the company has letters of intent for a grocery store and a milkshake shop to move into the space below the apartments.
“In general, the location of a grocery store in downtown has consistently been the most-received request from the public when discussing the future of downtown,” Downtown Transformation Manager Jeff McVay said.
He noted that specialty grocers Inspire Farms and Main Street Harvest currently serve downtown, but “the addition of a full-service grocery, if that is what would be part of the ZenCity project, would be a significant addition to downtown.”
