The generosity of Mesa voters in 2018 will start paying off soon in a series of quality-of-life-oriented civic improvements, including a desperately-needed fire station in southeast Mesa and a plaza near the ASU @Mesa City Center project.
Piece by piece, the wide-ranging $196-million bond issue is gradually being executed, with the first wave of improvements scheduled for completion next year.
Southeast Mesa residents at the fringe of city services became the first beneficiaries when the Mesa City Council on Aug. 31 approved the construction of a $5.8 million fire station in Eastmark, near Ray and Ellsworth roads and northeast of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.
While Station 221 is expected to vastly improve response times to a rapidly growing part of Mesa, the plaza is billed as focal point for special events downtown that are centered around the new ASU campus.