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Employers flocking fast to Gateway Airport area BY JASON STONE Tribune Staff Writer
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he East Valley’s hot jobs economy is allowing developers in Mesa’s Gateway Airport area to build them as fast as they can fill them. Low vacancy rates across the Valley – coupled with streamlined government approvals – are changing the landscape in the airport area. It’s truly proving the old adage if you build it, they will come – and apparently businesses want to be near the growing airport that’s sitting in an untapped desert area on the south-
Famous EV racing school in bankruptcy with $3.5M in debt
east edge of the city. “There’s a lot of demand right now,” said Mesa Economic Development Director Bill Jabjiniak. “We’re excited to see that with today’s low vacancy rate in industrial industries.” The latest addition to the fold is The Landing at PMG, a six-building industrial subdivision, just south of Loop 202 at the southeast corner of Ray and Sossaman roads. Marwest Enterprises is developing the 281,000-square-foot Class A industrial product that will include six buildings that range in size from 11,945 to 112,748 square feet with
20- to 30-foot ceiling heights. It’s just north of the airport. At the time of the PMG’s announcement, Mesa Mayor John Giles praised the area as “an active zone with easy freeway and airport access and one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Arizona.” There was more news last week as the city and developer VIVO Partners unveiled plans to begin building next year Gallery Park, a mammoth office-residential-retail complex near Power Road and the Loop 202 Freeway. See
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Remembering the smallest of the needy
BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor
GETOUT .................. 20 Tempe Arts Festival marks a half century next weekend
FOOD ......................... 22 These pork chops are heavenly.
COMMUNITY........... 10 BUSINESS ...................14 OPINION ................... 16 SPORTS ....................... 17 CLASSIFIEDS ............. 23
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he Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving – a half-century-old East Valley landmark – has skidded into federal bankruptcy court with $3.5 million in debts. The school petitioned the judge in the case two weeks ago for permission to hire an expert in restructuring distressed companies to rescue it from a sea of red ink – which it blamed partly on the loss of a lucrative military training contract, sporadic payments from two struggling auto manufacturers and the loss of a line of popular racing cars. Located at Wild Horse Pass near Chandler, the school has been both a fun mecca for nearly 500,000 students who range from
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Downtown Chandler Debra Miller of Mesa helps prepare stockings for infants as part of the Arizona Needy Newborns’ annual holiday campaign to bring a little joy to the region’s babies born in poverty. a look at ANN’sStreet effort, 141For West Boston see page 11.
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