The Mesa Design Review Board recently discussed the look and landscaping for the 187-acre third phase of the Google “Red Hawk” data center in southeast Mesa.
Chair Dane Astle and Boardmember Paul Johnson were absent from the Oct. 14 meeting.
A 283,497-square-foot data center building is planned, Staff Planner Charlotte Bridges said.
“It has a building height of 35 feet, 10 inches to the topmost parapet. We’re only reviewing phase 3. Phase 1 and 2 have been previously reviewed and are under construction,” she said. “There is mechanical equipment — generators, things like that, that are associated with this project. They will actually be on the north side and the south side of this building as opposed to the other two locations where those mechanical yards and generator yards are on the east and the west sides of the building. So they rotated this building 90 degrees.”
HDR Engineering Inc. is the architect/engineer and Stone Applications LLC is the owner.
The one-story data center is to have two server halls, control and operation rooms, and service-staff support areas. Infrastructure to support the data center includes mechanical and electrical yards and a substation, it states in a written project narrative.
The all-volunteer Mesa Design Review Board is unique in that its composition is set by the zoning ordinance to include two architects; two from other design professions such as landscape architecture, engineering, urban planning, interior design or other design-related background; one contractor or developer; and two residents, according to the city’s website.
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Meet Richard Richard Dyer has worked at Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA since 1987, starting his career in Apache Junction as a copy editor and being promoted over the years to work as the editor of the Mesa Independent, news services editor for the East Valley office in Apache Junction, managing editor for the East Valley office, news services editor for the East Valley office and eventually also for the newspapers at INI’s then-Chandler office, managing editor again and as a news editor covering Apache Junction/Gold Canyon and Queen Creek. He helped start the Florence Independent while the news editor covering Apache Junction and Mesa news. In January 2023, he became associate managing editor for the East Valley newspapers and in August 2023 became managing editor for the East Valley newspapers of Chandler/Tempe, Gilbert, Queen Creek, Florence, Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon, while also reporting on Mesa and Apache Junction/Gold Canyon.
Community: Since 2009, he has worked as a volunteer to design The Blue Guitar Magazine, Blue Guitar Jr. magazine and Unstrung magazine, which are projects of The Arizona Consortium for the Arts; and since 2014, has been overseeing the art submissions.
Education: University of Arizona with a master of arts in journalism and a bachelor of science in agricultural communication. Also continuing education at Mesa Community College in welding in a metal art sculpture class.
Random fact: Saw his first tornado on May 31, 2010, which was classified as an EF-2, as part of a stormchasing tour group.
Hobbies: He is an artist of welded-steel sculptures, selling his artwork at juried and non-juried art shows.
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