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By Scott Shumaker | East Valley Tribune
Live. Work. Play.
That’s the mantra of mixed-use development – a community that has jobs, homes and entertainment all within a short drive or walk.
If live-work-play is possible anywhere, southeast Mesa seems like a good candidate to find it and a particularly fertile testing ground for it is the area where the Elliot Road Tech Corridor meets Eastmark, a booming community that’s home to 16,000.
But some Eastmark residents think developers and the city are turning it into a case study for the challenges of implementing mixed-use utopias.
They perceive chunks of Eastmark that are supposed to weave green space and “activity areas” among employment centers are being given over wholly to industrial uses, selling out the promised live-work-play model.