The Mesa City Council has approved a major development agreement for Legacy Park and Gateway Crossing. The roughly $3 billion investment is expected to create more than 13,500 jobs.
The development will be located just east of Mesa Gateway Airport.
“We've seen a lot of residential growth in this area over the last decade,” Mesa City Manager Scott Butler said in an interview with KJZZ.
In an effort to catch up with that growth, city leaders are planning the largest mixed-use hospitality and retail development in Mesa’s history, including a 600-room luxury resort hotel.
“Really the quality of which you can only find in Scottsdale and maybe along the Camelback Corridor in Phoenix and so that's something that's desperately needed for the tourism sector here in Mesa and the Southeast Valley,” Butler said.
Butler said that resort, along with two other mid tier hotels will help the city accommodate the millions of visitors a year who visit the Arizona Athletic Grounds. The project also includes office and high-end retail space that he hopes will offer residents more options within city limits.
“We hear so often from our residents that they have to drive outside the community,” Butler said. “For the city, it hurts us in the sense that we lose all of that sales tax that doesn't stay in our communities and help support our public safety and our parks and our other amenities.”
The first phase of the project is expected to break ground in 2028.
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