The Mesa Arts Center price tag is on the rise. The city has reached a proposed $3.4 million settlement with contractor Layton Construction, is planning to spend up to $500,000 on additional projects, and cautioned that more unexpected costs could arise down the line.

The Mesa Arts Center price tag is on the rise. The city has reached a proposed $3.4 million settlement with contractor Layton Construction, is planning to spend up to $500,000 on additional projects, and cautioned that more unexpected costs could arise down the line.

Here is a list of upcoming shows and exhibits at the Mesa Arts Center in downtown Mesa. For tickets and information, call 480-644-6500 or visit www.mesaartscenter.com/mediaCenter.aspx.

The following is a list of upcoming events to be held at the Mesa Arts Center. For ticket information, please call (480)-644-6500 or visit www.mesaartscenter.com

Mesa has hired more than 440 people over the last 12 months despite a citywide hiring freeze instituted in February 2002 to ease the city's growing budget problem.

To see the future of west Mesa, look to the abandoned Target store at Main Street and Dobson. Or move east and see the shell of the old JCPenny building and the empty parking lots of former car dealerships.

To see the future of west Mesa, look to the abandoned Target store at Main Street and Dobson. Or move east and see the shell of the old JCPenny building and the empty parking lots of former car dealerships.

Nancy Wolter is happily married, but that’s not stopping Mesa’s cultural development officer from looking for her own Joe Millionaire. Since September 2001, Wolter has been looking for a few good men (and women) to donate large sums to the Mesa Arts Center scheduled to open in fall 2004.

Friday night in Mesa was not like Friday night in Mesa. People were everywhere. They were at the Mesa Arts Center watching free performances inside and out. They were crowding into the restaurants. They were winding through the SunDust Gallery for its grand opening at 48 W. Main St.

Three Mesans who have demonstrated “a willingness to go the extra mile for others” have been recognized for their service to the community with the title of Mesa Citizen of the Year.

The wild West? You couldn't get further from it in the East Valley, at least according to Forbes Magazine.

Mesa’s Ross Farnsworth spent several decades as chairman and CEO of various Farnsworth Companies developing land and real estate projects, driven by his desire to help people and the community he loved.

A year ago, Mesa City Councilman Mike Whalen thought the business market would take care of the glut of payday loan stores in the city. Now, Whalen says he was wrong.

Mesa officials are looking forward to more space for city arts classes when the vaunted $94.5 million downtown arts center opens in spring 2005.

Before becoming one of 5,000 students to take part in a pilot geography program, Kevin Mach, 13, said he thought people outside the United States were mean. "Now I know they’re just like us," said the Powell Junior High School seventh-grader.

April 25, 2005

PREHAB of Arizona Inc. has announced an alliance with Mesa Community Action Network, a partnership both nonprofits say will bring a broad spectrum of new services to MesaCAN clients and employees.

The Waveyard resort appears headed to Mesa’s Riverview area, ending a monthslong battle with Surprise to land the unique development.

Under normal circumstances, Sam Clark would hesitate to want the term “mob” associated with his upstart downtown Mesa coffeehouse.

Under normal circumstances, Sam Clark would hesitate to want the term “mob” associated with his upstart downtown Mesa coffeehouse.

March 5, 2005

The Scottsdale Center for the Arts needs a face-lift to compete better with expensive facilities going up in other East Valley cities, but the people who run the 30-year-old building are starting the renovation with its name.