Commercial Landscaping in Downtown Mesa, AZ

Landscaping for a downtown people walk

Also known as: Main Street, Town Center

About 2.5 million people visit Downtown Mesa each year. Most of them walk right past your planters.

Select Mesa counts about 2.5 million visitors a year downtown, and the Mesa Arts Center alone draws more than 400,000 patrons. That means people see your landscape on foot and up close, not at 40 miles an hour. Small things show: a dead plant in a raised planter, a limb hanging low over the sidewalk, a drip line spraying a shop window. Downtown sites tend to have tight beds, tree wells and pots instead of open turf, so the work is careful detail work around patios, bike racks and people.

The Downtown Mesa Association runs an enhanced municipal services district covering about one square mile, paid for by an assessment on more than 500 downtown parcels. Its Clean Team works seven days a week on trash, graffiti and illegal dumping, and DMA maintains landscaping at public spots like Mesa City Plaza and the Neon Garden. That covers shared public space. Your own beds, planters, irrigation and private walkways are still on you, and that's where a contracted crew fits in next to DMA's work.

Valley Metro light rail has run along Main Street since 2015, with downtown stations at Country Club Drive, Center Street and Mesa Drive. Select Mesa calls downtown one of Arizona's oldest and largest historic commercial districts, and it sits inside the city's Town Center Redevelopment Area. Older brick and new infill share the same blocks, so we keep overspray off masonry, keep canopies clear of signs and lights, and protect the shade that summer pedestrians depend on.

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