Nearly a month after the Diving Lady was again restored to her perch high above Main Street, the focus of the Mesa Preservation Foundation has shifted to restoring and reopening the also-historic Buckhorn Baths Motel.

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After experiencing a downturn for the past few years with its historical amenities and watching its landmarks deteriorate as their futures remained uncertain, preservation officials in the city of Mesa now have the means to renovate them in the near future.

Mesa voters have approved a $70 million bond for the city to make a myriad of improvements, according to unofficial results

Mesa voters will cast ballots Nov. 6 for two bond issues – one for the schools and one for the city.

Mesa’s Buckhorn Mineral Baths.

Mesa’s Buckhorn Mineral Baths. Did Elvis Presley sleep there? And does his ghost haunt the premises of the 15-acre roadside landmark at the northeast corner of East Main Street and Recker Road?

Before interstate freeways and TripAdvisor.com, Mesa's Main Street glistened with neon to lure weary travelers to motels.

Summer already is a month old, and one of Mesa’s leading ladies has not been able to take a dip into the pool, much less do what she’s best known for — take a dive.

Alice Sliger spent most of her 103 years amassing a priceless collection of Western art and iconic baseball memorabilia from players who wintered in her Buckhorn Baths resort in Mesa.

A parks bond package heading to Mesa voters this November has grown by $5 million to boost the number of improvements the city can make to its aging parks.

Mesa has proposed a $65 million bond package for voters to consider this November after residents spent the last year outlining improvements they’d like to the city’s aging park system.

Where is The Diving Lady of the Starlite Motel? And when will she return to the springboard?

Mesa will begin testing the waters this month on a parks and recreation improvement package that could lead to the first major upgrades in the city since voters approved a bond package in 1996.

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Mesa is considering buying the historic Buckhorn Baths to preserve the place where some of baseball’s most legendary players came for decades to sooth themselves in hot mineral water.

There are three things to look forward to when spring hits the Valley: baseball, weather and wildflowers.