The owner of Chandler Fashion Center has sold a nearly 50 percent share of the property to a Chicago-based real estate investment management firm.

No letdown in the Fiesta Region allowed. Following Chandler Hamilton's victorious thriller last Friday against Phoenix Brophy, the Huskies get a Mesa Red Mountain team trying to lick its wounds from a brutal schedule and deficient defense of late. The Broncos face a proverbial "trap game" against Phoenix Desert Vista, while Chandler and surging Mesa Mountain View hook up in an interesting nonregion tussle.

Mesa is considering the sale of 1,600 acres of city-owned land in Pinal County to a Colorado-based firm currently building a heavy, rail-driven industrial development near Denver’s airport.

Mesa Riverview opened its doors five years ago with up to $80 million in taxpayer incentives and plans to revive west Mesa with new shops and a bustling entertainment district.

Plans to redevelop an abandoned neighborhood near downtown Mesa have hit a snag that threatens to unravel the project later this summer.

All of her young life, Eliza Andreasin has wanted to become a missionary in the church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.

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.

All of her young life, Eliza Andreasin has wanted to become a missionary in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Finally Mesa gets Kohl’s.

May 2, 2005

Mesa and Queen Creek are locked in a sometimes tense competition to see who will get the next freeway in the far East Valley. The stakes are enormous.

Continuing the tradition that has lasted more than three decades, the Mesa Arizona Temple Gardens will again host the spectacular Christmas lights display that is recognized as one of the most beautiful in the state.

This could be a Mesa girl does good story.

The vote on Mesa’s Riverview at Dobson project has riveted the attention of not only the city’s voters but residents throughout the East Valley. And, in fact, a lot is at stake, for Mesa as well as the entire East Valley.

Longtime local auto salesman Henry Brown, who has been buying up space in the Santan Motorplex, has landed another brand to hawk at the 130-acre Gilbert auto mall.

The trend in redevelopment in the East Valley, thankfully, is away from central planning and execution by City Hall and toward more control by property owners and developers. The latest example is an eight-acre redevelopment project in downtown Chandler directly north of the Sheraton San Marcos Resort.

Several East Valley-based teams have been winding up their seasons at statewide and national championships the past few weeks with mixed success. At the pool, Scottsdale Aquatic Club dominated the 2007 Arizona Long Course Age Group State Championship swim meet held July 19-22 at Mona Plummer Aquatic Center at Arizona State.

The San Tan Freeway is still a few years from completing its loop through Gilbert, but national retailers aren’t waiting for the roads to start ringing up sales.

Following a flurry of land purchases the last two years, construction will finally begin at Gilbert’s massive auto mall.

Annie Hunt moved from central Phoenix to southeast Gilbert a year ago.

Three major health-care corporations already serving the metropolitan area are scrambling to fill a medical void in the south East Valley and capitalize on the booming growth.

Restrictions on where child molesters and other sex offenders can live are on the rise nationwide, supported by a recent federal court decision that upholds modern-day banishments.

Restrictions on where child molesters and other sex offenders can live are on the rise nationwide, supported by a recent federal court decision that upholds modern-day banishments.

 All of us who jumped aboard the term-limits bandwagon to get rid of the “bad guys” in office just shot ourselves in the foot. Rep. Russell Pearce, a genuine Arizona treasure, is being forced via term limits to vacate his position of influence in the state House and run for the state Senate.