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The City of Mesa is the third-largest city in the state of Arizona and the country’s 38th-largest city.

The city provides the advantages of a thriving metropolis while maintaining the feel of a suburban environment.

Just 15 miles east of Phoenix, Mesa covers 128 square miles.

Mesa and Business

Mesa continues to offer the whole package, boosted by a nearly 60 percent surge in population since 1990. A combination of good local jobs, a commitment to high-quality education, and a family-friendly, laid-back lifestyle continues to attract residents to Mesa.

Business Attitude

Business opportunities abound for new residents; in fact, in 2006 Entrepreneur magazine named the Phoenix-Mesa area as the best U.S. city to start and grow a business. The magazine cites the continued exodus of California residents relocating to more affordable western states as a prime factor in the valley’s continued growth.

Mesa has eight business corridors or centers throughout the city’s planning area of approximately 170 square miles. These corridors are: Mesa Riverview, Union Pacific, Fiesta on the west side, the downtown area, Superstition Freeway West, the Falcon Field district, Superstition Freeway East, and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport corridor on Mesa’s east end. These economic activity centers host about 70 percent of the city’s jobs and 66 percent of the city’s businesses.

As of September, 2008, the countrywide unemployment rate equaled 6.1 percent. Comparably, the state of Arizona’s rate for the same month totaled 5.9 percent. Significantly lower is the metropolitan area of Phoenix, Mesa and Scottsdale at 5.4 percent.

These major employers in the city help to keep the rate lower than the national average:

Mesa Public Schools — 10,000
Banner Health System — 6,600
The Boeing Company — 4,700
City of Mesa — 3,700
Empire Southwest — 1,000
TRW — 800
Mesa Community College — 700
AMPAM Riggs Plumbing — 650
Mesa Fully Formed — 600
United States Postal — 520
Tribune Newspapers — 500

Mesa, located in Maricopa County, is one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities.

There are solid reasons for Mesa’s growth:

• low costs of doing business
• reasonable tax structure
• skilled and well-educated workforce
• low crime rate, superior schools
• affordable housing
• and an excellent quality of life