Marina Carbajal rushed early Wednesday morning to the east Mesa restaurant she opened 13 years ago and found flames dancing off adjacent businesses and gray smoke billowing into the dark sky.

Some of Tempe’s languishing strip malls may not look like much, but city officials hope that someday soon you’ll want to live in one.

In an area of the city that has been dotted with structure fires over the last decade, the Granite Reef Plaza in east Mesa was the latest to be destroyed by a blaze on Sunday — an event causing nine of its businesses to close.

Kim Commons heard the plans for Tempe Marketplace, and his “blood went cold.”

A 24-year-old man is hospitalized at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn in stable but serious condition after he was stabbed in the neck in the parking lot of a Gilbert strip mall on Wednesday.

Two of Ahwatukee Foothills' oldest commercial buildings faced the wrecking ball this week to make way for a new Walgreens.

The future remains murky for tenants of an Ahwatukee Foothills strip mall that's scheduled for demolition later this year to make way for a Walgreens.

The future remains murky for tenants of an Ahwatukee Foothills strip mall that's scheduled for demolition later this year to make way for a Walgreens.

A strip mall was evacuated Thursday morning after firefighters and a gas crew responded to a gas leak.

The 3-year-old UPS Store at Lindsay and Warner roads "was going to be our retirement," owner Mike Biggy said last week. Today, "It doesn't look like it's going to work out that way," he said.

Its drive-through menu still offers fish sandwiches, Brownie Earthquakes and Pecan Mudslides, but nine months after a fire destroyed a popular Mesa Dairy Queen, nothing’s cooking in the fenced and boarded-up structure.

Agritopia, an agriculturally-focused, multi-use community in Gilbert, is planning what’s shaping to be its largest project since its establishment. Epicenter at Agritopia will be a food-based shopping center established over an estimated 25 acres that aims to showcase local farmers and retailers in an innovative way.

Three new strip malls are either in the works or already opening in Gilbert, Cave Creek and Mesa.

If a geographical spot attracts an unusually high degree of paranormal activity, it is said to be a “spiritual vortex.” Sedona and Stonehenge are well-known examples.