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Mesa moving on bold downtown plan 3-pronged vision includes Sale of city land to help pay hi-tech ASU campus, studio for campus, both stadiums BY JORDAN HOUSTON Tribune Staff Writer
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esa’s downtown is one step closer to a major makeover. During a recent City Council study session, Downtown Transformation Manager Jeff McVay gave an update on a large downtown project and introduced two others — a new Arizona State University location at the Mesa City Center, accompanied by studios, and a Co+Hoots at Benedictine University. The three projects are part of a larger effort to breathe life into the city’s downtown area while establishing an Innovation District, said McVay.
see DOWNTOWN page 8
BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
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esa plans to use proceeds from the sale of several pieces of city land to avoid tapping into its Enterprise Fund for an estimated two or three years to pay off excise bonds sold to finance Arizona State University’s downtown center. City Manager Chris Brady told the City Council that the final sale of land purchased decades ago in Pinal County, anticipated on July 1, would not only pay off the bonds on Sloan Park and Hohokam Stadium, but also contribute toward paying off the ASU bonds.
see LAND page 8
A terminally ill mom’s last wish: a vacation with her kids
SPORTS...................... 20 Chandler reigns supreme in track
GET OUT .................. 22 Region gets a bit of New Orleans.
COMMUNITY.................12 BUSINESS........................16 OPINION.........................18 SPORTS ..........................20 GETOUT.......................... 22 CLASSIFIED....................26
BY KAYLA RUTLEDGE Tribune Staff Writer
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ora Hulsman swung into action quickly when she heard about a terminally ill Chandler mother of two whose last wish was to go on a family trip to LEGOLAND. Hulsman was at a budget meeting for the nonprofit East Valley Women’s League when she learned that Annastacia Alley was terminally ill with cancer — and that there was no money in the group’s budget to help make that wish come true. So, Hulsman took it upon herself to gather the funds. Alley said she chose LEGOLAND because she wanted to go on one last family vacation
with her children, husband and mother, hoping the kids — both under 4 — will remember how much fun they had for those couple of days with her. At 29, Alley is the youngest documented person in the world to have no major medical issues and be stricken with neuroendocrine cancer, an aggressive hormone-producing cancer that has developed into tumors and spread from her chest to her liver, bones and lungs. “I was told [Alley] could pass at any moment, so I knew I needed to get the money fast if we were going to make this happen for her,” said Hulsman.
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Annastacia Alley of Chandler hugs her 18-month-old daughter Parker Jane, whom she knows she will never see grow up. Alley is terminally ill with a rare cancer and had only one wish: take Parker Jane and her older brother on a little vacation to LEGOLAND. (Kimberly Carrillo/Staff Photographer)
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