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Mesa council unanimously approves formation of theme park district for Fiesta Mall site
Summary
Mesa’s City Council approved creating a four-member theme park district to redevelop the former Fiesta Mall site, elected two council members to the district board and approved a development and intergovernmental agreement; staff said the city will have no obligation for district debt.
Mesa’s City Council unanimously approved a resolution during a special meeting to create a theme park district covering the former Fiesta Mall site and to appoint two council members to the district’s governing board.
Jeff Robbins, the city’s redevelopment administrator, told the council the privately owned, roughly 80-acre property has been the focus of redevelopment planning since the mall closed in 2019 and demolition began in 2023. Robbins said the proposal would establish a separate legal and financial entity to support an entertainment-focused redevelopment and would include a development and intergovernmental agreement with the property owners.
Robbins said, “Theme park districts provide both a dedicated financing as well as a dedicated governance mechanism to…
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