Good morning, Eastmark. School's out, the summer reading season starts today at Gateway Library, and the next eight days are mostly families, food, and one busy council agenda.
🍜 Six business items on Mesa's June 8 council agenda, from a new pho spot on Ellsworth to a chemical plant on the industrial edge.
🎹 An Elton John tribute under the stars at the Great Park, Friday night.
🫧 Summer programming runs all week at The 'Mark: bubble day, game day, karaoke.
🥕 Eastmark Farmers Market is back Saturday, alongside a water-donation drive at the Great Park.
📋 Still Tracking: EastMarket, the Apple site, Liv at Eastmark, and Brakes Plus.
The June 8 council agenda
Mesa's city council meets June 8, and the agenda is a snapshot of the commercial layer filling in around Eastmark. Most of the action is new food and drink, with one industrial item on the south edge.
Key facts:
- Tastea Pho Banh Mi Café wants a restaurant license at 3442 S Ellsworth Rd, Suites 101-102. A new sit-down Vietnamese spot with no prior license at the address. Details.
- Makoto Sushi takes over the former Mesa Sakura Sushi space at 1545 S Power Rd, Suite 116, on a new restaurant license. Details.
- BrkThrough, an interactive entertainment venue with a bar, seeks a beer and wine license at 4551 S Power Rd, Suite 133. Details.
- A new 7-Eleven at 3615 S Power Rd is asking for a beer and wine store license. Details.
- Krazy Cajun Seafood & Hibachi at 6555 E Southern Ave drew a staff recommendation to deny, over unpaid fees and permits the applicant has not yet obtained. Details.
- MGC Pure Chemical America would activate a chemical manufacturing facility at 6560 S Mountain Rd under a foreign-trade-zone agreement (a federal designation that lets a site defer or cut tariffs on imported materials). Details.
Eastmark finished selling its last new homes in 2025. The story now is the service and retail layer catching up to the rooftops, and most of it is landing along Ellsworth and Power. The MGC item is a different thread, the steady industrial fill on the south and east edges that the data-center corridor keeps pulling in.
What to watch: council meets June 8. The licenses and the trade-zone resolution are all on that night's agenda.
The week
Today, Monday
- 🫧 Summer reading foam party at Gateway Library. Music, dancing, and mountains of foam. Two sessions, 9 and 10 a.m. Details.
Tuesday
- 🌳 Landscape Advisory Committee meets. Resident-led, with Cohere staff and landscape vendors. 9 a.m. at the Classroom at The 'Mark.
- 🤝 Bereavement Group meeting. Hospice of the Valley's Carolyn Richel leads a session on coping with loss. 10 a.m. at the Classroom at The 'Mark. Details.
Wednesday
- 🫧 Bubble Day at The 'Mark. A bubble-themed morning for kids, 9:30 a.m. to noon. Details.
Friday
Saturday
- 🥕 Eastmark Farmers Market. The Great Park parking lot south of Gateway Library, 8 a.m. to noon. Details.
- 💧 Hydration Drive: Splash into Summer. Dunk tank, raffles, and a water-donation push for the Mesa Hydration campaign at the Great Park, 9 to 11 a.m. Bring a case of bottled water. Details.
- 📐 Design Review Open House. Walk-in time with Operations staff on the home design review process. Classroom at The 'Mark, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Details.
- 🎤 Karaoke night at The 'Mark. Sing your hits, 6 p.m. Details.
Around Eastmark
🪧 Board of Adjustment meets June 3. Mountainside Fitness is asking to modify its sign plan at 9311 E Cadence Parkway, over in Cadence. A commercial center at Broadway and Power is also on the agenda. Details.
✅ Already through council. Two Ellsworth-corridor items cleared the May 18 meeting: Zeitouna, a new sit-down restaurant at 3515 S Ellsworth Rd, and a Circle K at 10744 E Elliot Rd.
🏞️ Mesa parks get a middling grade. A new Trust for Public Land report scored Mesa's park system in the middle of the pack nationally. For Eastmark, the counterweight is the Great Park and the 75-plus pocket parks built into the neighborhood by design. Details.
Still tracking
Quick check-in on stuff we've covered in past editions:
- 🛒 Sprouts at EastMarket (Ray and Ellsworth). Construction underway. Building wraps up around August, Sprouts opens Q4 2026.
- 🍎 Apple manufacturing on Signal Butte. Council votes on the Foreign Trade Zone agreement Monday, May 18.
- 🏢 Liv at Eastmark (NE corner Ellsworth and Ray). 208 apartments across 12 buildings, recently approved. Construction next.
- 🔧 Brakes Plus Mesa (Ellsworth and Elliot). Auto shop still working through council site plan tweaks.
