By Wayne Schutsk y | East Valley Tribune
The Silicon Desert is expanding in Mesa, one announcement at a time. The city’s Elliot Road Technology Corridor – already home to Apple’s global operations command center – is beginning to attract an array of tech companies to occupy the stretch of land between Signal Butte and Hawes Roads.
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The city of Mesa has been active in its attempts to further spur economic development in corridor and the Mesa-Gateway region as a whole.
“There are two things that attract technology companies, or any company,” said Mesa Economic Development Director Bill Jabjiniak. Those two things include “the amount of available infrastructure” and “how quickly we can get through the entitlement process.”
