By Jim Walsh | East Valley Tribune
Patricia and Kane Black bought a bungalow built in 1923 near downtown Mesa, spurning cookie-cutter suburban housing while choosing to raise their small children in a historic district.
Michael Harris looked at the same neighborhood as the perfect place to open a transitional-living house, to help drug offenders such as himself stay clean after their release from prison. He viewed access to light rail, Maricopa County Adult Probation and the Mesa Public Library as attributes. It also is near Community Bridges addiction treatment center, where he works.
