A retail center with an unnamed big-box anchor, a separate gas station and two hotels is working its way through Mesa's approval process at the southwest corner of Williams Field Road and State Route 24, near Mesa Gateway Airport.
Phoenix-based developer Vestar calls the 37-acre project Gateway Crossing. Mesa's Design Review Board took it up Oct. 13 as a preliminary review, in which board members give the applicant comments but do not approve or deny the plans. The board was supportive but did not take a formal vote, the Phoenix Business Journal reported, in a story ABC15 published Thursday.
What is proposed
The meeting agenda describes a major tenant building of about 166,000 square feet, two shop buildings totaling about 27,950 square feet, and two hotels. The project narrative submitted by property owner Pacific Proving LLC with Vestar lists:
- Two hotels with about 212 rooms combined and a planned height of 55 feet; the applicant is seeking permission for up to 65 feet to allow for changes by the eventual hotel operators.
- A large retail anchor of roughly 164,000 square feet in the narrative's figures, up to 45 feet tall, with its own service station.
- Two multi-tenant shop buildings of about 28,000 square feet in total.
- Two drive-thru restaurant pads along Williams Field Road, shown only conceptually for now.
- A signalized entrance on Williams Field Road and access to the Arizona Athletic Grounds.
Neither the agenda nor the narrative names the anchor store.
