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Mesa is trying a new strategy to attract retail. It has an online survey available through April 30 for residents to share opinions about the current retail landscape, including restaurants, shops and entertainment.The bilingual survey asks people to rank their top three dining preferences — everything from fine dining, to pet-friendly to food trucks. The city also wants to

Jaye O'Donnell, who has worked with the city for the past 14 years, has been named director of Mesa's Office of Economic Development.

Last week, long-time Mesa Economic Development Director Bill Jabjiniak began informing city staff, elected officials and the business community that he would be leaving his role at the city in

Two prominent Mesa business leaders resigned from the Visit Mesa board of directors in July, citing disagreements with the nonprofit’s professional staff over transparency concerns and a $60,000 golf club

Mesa’s ethnic vibrancy racked up a notch or two recently when three new murals were painted in its Asian District.

The Asian District in Mesa has come to life with enthusiasm for its restaurants, grocers and variety of other businesses.

The Arizona Asian Chamber of Commerce partnered with the recently named Asian District in Mesa to host the Asian District Night Market: Kamayan Festival, which showcased small businesses.

The list was compiled by QuickBooks, which lists a number of cities that have shown signs of strong recovery following the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gilbert is also on the list.

A college town. That’s not to say Mesa had no place for kids to go after high school. It already had a robust community college, the burgeoning Polytechnic campus of Arizona State University and A.T. Still University, which specializes in health-care fields. But what it lacked was the kind of small liberal-arts college you’ll find within a stone’s throw of almost anyone living in the Midwest or East. Often dating to the 19th century or even earlier, those kinds of schools never t...