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After months of preparation, and with a curious community ready for the doors to unlock, FlipSide — a new multi-dimensional family entertainment center in south Gilbert — recently welcomed crowds of fun-hungry visitors inside a full three weeks before the facility’s official grand opening.

It was touted as a panacea for bringing life to downtown Mesa. But college officials say rising construction costs and the chance to plan a new program at a single site pushed them to move expansion plans for Mesa Community College to its main Fiesta district campus instead.

May 9, 2005

If anyone has a right to grumble over the high cost of gas, it's J.B. Cortez. The manager of Scottsdale's The Main Ingredient - a tiny kitchen supply store tucked away in a strip mall near McDowell and Scottsdale roads - said the Valley's record high gasoline prices have peeled away about 50 percent of his normal customer traffic.