October 2017
Hector Viramontes, 4, glues crafty items onto his mask at the “Afternoon of Disguise” event at Red Mountain Library.
Longbow Gateway One aims After summer monsoon, Red to attract aerospace businesses Mountain Park is cleaning up By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
Vice Mayor and District 5 Councilman David Luna speaks before 30 to 40 people at the groundbreaking ceremony. (Photo courtesy City of Mesa)
By Jimmy Magahern Red Mountain Park, just west of the Red Mountain Freeway at Brown Road, is home to an eight-acre, 17-foot-deep urban fishing lake regularly stocked with catfish, trout, sunfish and largemouth bass. In 2011, in fact, Mesa resident Brandon Dugan even caught the biggest largemouth bass – 3 pounds, 12.8 ounces – in Arizona’s Urban Big Fishof-the-Year contest here. But lately, it’s the water around the 65,000-square-foot Red Mountain Multigenerational Center that’s been attracting the most attention. Kym Otterstedt, recreation supervisor for the city of Mesa, says the rainy weather
Construction machinery peppers the southeast corner of Higley Road and Longbow Parkway in preparation for Longbow Gateway One, a 150,000-square-foot speculative industrial facility designed to attract aerospace and defense businesses to the Falcon Field District. Construction of the facility is expected to be completed January 31. Once fully leased, Longbow Gateway One is expected to have at least 175 employees. “Longbow Gateway One will be an excellent addition to Mesa,” Mayor John Giles said. “The decision by Opus Development Company to bring a new
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Red Mountain Multigenerational Center (Photo by Kym Otterstedt)
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