Landscaping for Mesa's Elliot Road Tech Corridor

Landscaping around campus-scale tech sites

Also known as: Elliot Road Tech Corridor, ERTC, Mesa tech corridor

The servers inside like it cool. The shrubs outside would like a word.

The city's pitch for this corridor is infrastructure: redundant power from SRP with 69kV, 230kV and 500kV transmission lines, the Browning and Scott receiving stations, and fiber from several carriers. Projects here are big. A 2019 report described one planned campus as seven buildings and 1.5 million square feet on 102 acres. Landscapes at that scale are mostly perimeter: long stretches of street frontage, screening along fences and wide basins that need care all year even though few people see them up close.

Mesa's Overlay Opt-In for the corridor offers administrative approval and extra building height of up to 150 feet. Tall, plain walls next to open desert put more weight on the landscape around them. Street trees need structural pruning so they grow into their space, shrub screens need to stay full, and granite areas need steady weed control so the site reads as finished, not fenced-off dirt. Getting those basics right early is cheaper than replacing a dead screen later.

Campuses like these usually control who comes and goes. We plan routes so the same crew visits on a set schedule, follows your check-in process and works around shift changes and deliveries. Irrigation and backflow problems get reported the same day, so your facilities team knows what we found without walking the fence line. Our 24/7 support line covers the surprises, like a broken lateral on a Sunday.