Council is expected Monday to approve final agreements with Culdesac to bring 1,000 residential units and a minimum of 50,000-square feet of retail to a long undeveloped city-owned parcel in downtown Mesa.

Although the developer is also behind Culdesac Tempe, the nation’s first car-free neighborhood, the Mesa project would have a minimum 815 parking spaces.

For 40 years, the site of Culdesac’s downtown Mesa project has been barren and a springboard for one failed idea after another. City of Mesa

“Council will have the opportunity to take a vote on – hopefully a final solution for the future of Site 17,” said Jeff McVay, Urban Transformation manager at the Sept. 4 council study session.

He was referring to a roughly 25-acre lot at the southwest corner of University and Mesa drives t

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