Manuel Ramirez always dreamed about opening a restaurant. 

Power Square Mall in Mesa reinvented itself during a time when malls across America were dying.

Bringing the East Valley together for over 20 years, the recently reopened the Mesa Market Place Swap Meet continues to support local entrepreneurs by hosting over 900 small businesses in one location. 

 As the pandemic appears to be giving way to a semblance of normality, the world of commercial office space is anything but normal.

SWIMkids USA celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer. 

The Bondurant School of High Performance Driving is no more.

A crowd-funding real estate investment company is offering people a chance to get in on the purchase of a 20-unit apartment building at 407 Williams Road in Mesa.

In the male-dominated world of marijuana retail, a group of women is cultivating a more inclusive, more welcoming environment for female consumers interested in working with weed.

The Downtown Mesa Farmers Market has a new home at the Mesa Arts Center at 1 East Main Street. 

It’s “game over” for a popular Gilbert video game store whose Mesa owner is retiring after 25 years of serving East Valley’s gaming community.  

After 15 years of hosting concerts and events, Club Red closed the curtains and its location on University Drive. 

The city of Mesa and Local First Arizona are urging businesses to apply for “going green” recognition through the Arizona Green Business Program.

Mahnaz Pourian gave up a really nice vacation to help people in need.

Tucked in the heart of downtown Mesa is a store whose owner looks for vintage Arizona.

Jordan White and Phillip Schafer may have traded the adrenaline rush of working as nurses on a life-flight helicopter ambulance for the somewhat staid life of aestheticians, but there is one thing they’ve taken with them to their new Mesa practice.

Orvid and Maria Fernana Cutler opened their Venezuelan restaurant six months ago in downtown Mesa, but the Gilbert couple have been rolling with their dishes for a lot longer than that.

Blake Bigelow was visiting family in Texas, where a local popsicle company was based. It delivered pops and sold them at farmers markets.

Construction has begun in Mesa on Banner Rehabilitation Hospital East, the third Valley venture between Banner Health and Select Medical.

When the pandemic hit, leading to closures of restaurants and then reopenings with tight restrictions, it was hard enough for established restaurants who built up loyal customers over years.

A Mesa Marine veteran and celebrated cider maker has been named one of 29 national Rising Stars in the food and beverage industry.

As if low inventory wasn’t exerting enough pressure on home prices, two new trends are apparently adding to the surge – particularly for new houses.

In just the past few weeks, developers have unveiled plans for 2,050 new homes in the Southeast Valley, with 350 of them in Mesa and the rest in a mammoth Fulton Homes planned community in Queen Creek.

East Mesa residents who are hoping to catch a ride to downtown Phoenix or Scottsdale in one of those odd-looking white Chrysler minivans or Jaguar sedans with no one behind the wheel will have to keep waiting.

MAPFRE Foundation named Lauren Jenkins of Mesa among its 2020 Community Champions, as part of its annual corporate volunteer award program.

The Vault at Pistol Parlour is no ordinary gun shop.