Mesa Arts Center

Set on a seven-acre (three ha) campus directly across from city hall, the public arts complex contains galleries and other exhibit spaces, four theaters, studios, classrooms, and administrative ofﬁces, as well as a large outdoor plaza and passageway. The project celebrates the essence of the Southwest while offering comprehensive performance and visual arts programming and education and creating an economic development engine for downtown Mesa.

Belmar

Belmar, a 22-block downtown in the making, exempliﬁes the potential for transforming post–World War II bedroom suburbs into more diverse, compact, sustainable, pedestrian-oriented, and transit-oriented communities. When completed, it promises to be a model for the redeﬁnition of suburban communities that have been buffeted by inexorable growth over the past several decades.