By Maria Polletta | The Arizona Republic
Scottsdale-based DMB Associates has billed its latest project — a 5-square-mile, mixed-use community in east Mesa called Eastmark — as a place where “the finest ideas for how we want to live today unite … in a way that’s never quite been done before.”
But DMB can’t offer on its own the plethora of educational, cultural and health-related opportunities it envisions for the site. The company for years has been exploring collaborations with Mesa and southeast Valley institutions to deepen the Eastmark-resident experience.
Those efforts have picked up speed in the past three months, following the hiring of Suzanne Walden-Wells as Eastmark’s director of community life.
Walden-Wells, a former community-council executive director for Scottsdale’s DC Ranch and a longtime Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce executive, is now responsible for helping assemble a team of specialists who will cement those partnerships and use resident input to create new ones.
