The retail giant has reneged on their plans to build 10 to 19 story condominiums and reduced them to 5 and 6 story units.
They also decreased the number of condos they planned to build from 850 to 438. Have you also canned your plans to add an entertainment center and restaurants?
The company known for their upscale retail centers including the Keirland Commons, Bordega and Scottsdale Fashion Square, has renovated the Biltmore
Fashion Park with a skywalk for hotel guests to get across Camelback Road safely. Yet, they left the Fiesta Mall to linger in its emaciated state with plans to refurbish the food court and fill the vacant Macy’s space with additional consumer outlets. Is the Fiesta Mall another Desert Sky Mall waiting
to happen?
Wetscor is sending Mesa a message. Since Mesa is not within the economic bracket of Scottsdale residents, our town doesn’t deserve the developer spending millions of dollars to reinvent the Fiesta corridor.
Has Westcor tried hard enough to entice another anchor to fill Macy’s void? Another anchor would certainly bring shoppers back to the Fiesta Mall. Instead of using band-aids to revitalize the retail outlet, why not level the structure and replace it an attractive, upscale building? Doesn’t Mesa rate a new mall?
The Mesa Arts Center proves that we like nice. The building is worthy of Mesa’s theater goers and art students.
Listen up Westcor. Snowbirds have money to spend. Show us that you have faith in Mesa.
by Marylin Janson
