By Scott Shumaker | The Mesa Tribune
The federal government has paused final approval of a 6-mile railway spur in southeast Mesa after discovering “significant” damage to ancestral Native American village sites.
The damage was caused by construction associated with private industrial business parks adjacent to Union Pacific’s property.
The area is part of Mesa’s Pecos Advanced Manufacturing Zone, currently anchored by heavy industries like CMC Steel, Fujifilm Chemicals and Bridgestone Americas.