By Maria Polletta | The Republic | azcentral.com
Developers planning to build a grocery-anchored plaza in southeastern Mesa have secured the support of the city’s Planning and Zoning Board despite lingering questions about how the development would mesh with the overall vision for the area.
City planners months ago had skewered the first incarnation of the Whane Plaza plan, billed as a 60-acre shopping center with a supermarket, drug store, hotel, retail, offices and restaurants at the northwestern corner of Signal Butte and Elliot roads.
The updated proposal reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Board on Oct. 16 had about one-third that acreage, having been downsized after planning staff indicated they could support a smaller footprint if the project better addressed city goals for the zone.
