Homestead at Eastmark apartments in Mesa to have valet trash service

By Richard Dyer
Mail | X: @RHDyer

A 261-unit, three-story apartment complex with valet trash service and 2.2 acres of retail and commercial development are planned at the southwest corner of South Signal Butte Road and East Rubidium Avenue in Mesa.

The Mesa Planning and Zoning Board on June 24 voted 6-0 to approve a major site plan review for the 11.7-acre Homestead at Eastmark development. Board member Genessee Montes was absent, according to the meeting’s minutes.

The city requires 488 parking spaces and 444 are to be provided. The commercial area is to have a 2,360-square-foot restaurant with a pickup window and an 8,480-square-foot retail/restaurant building with 59 required parking spaces and 99 spaces provided, according to a city document.

The landscape plan includes trees such as mulga acacia, palo blanco, palo verde, red push pistache and date palm; and shrubs such as purple hopseed bush, blue bells, rio bravo sage and bottlebrush.

Luke Ashworth of Evergreen is the applicant. DMB Mesa Proving Grounds LLC is the owner.

In accordance with the Mesa Proving Grounds Community Plan, Brookfield has reviewed and conditionally approved a revised site plan, preliminary landscape and conceptual architecture submitted by Evergreen with conditions of approval, Eric J. Tune, senior vice president of development at Brookfield Residential, wrote in a letter to the city of Mesa’s planning director.

“Final submittals of all structures proposed are required for Eastmark Design Review and final approval by the Eastmark Design Review Committee prior city permit review submittal,” he said.

The luxury rental community is designed to appeal to working professionals, employees and young families. It is to have a clubhouse with business and lounge area, swimming pool and spa, an outdoor lounge, barbecue areas, a fitness center, and recreation area, according to a written project narrative.

“Valet trash service will be provided for all residents. The service will begin in the evening and will be provided for five days a week. Valets will stop by each resident’s door and pick up trash that has been left out and take it to the compactor,” it states. “Building placement has been developed to interact with the streetscape and adjacent developments by varying the roof lines, styles and orientations, providing spacious courtyards, amenities and landscape features, a variety of stories and architectural detail.”

Rental price ranges were not included in the written narrative.

The seven-member Planning and Zoning Board conducts hearings and make recommendations to the City Council on requests for changes in zoning and on required site plans. It also considers and recommends changes in the city’s long-range plans and in the municipal code concerning planning and zoning matters. Members are appointed for staggered terms of three years.

Richard H. Dyer can be reached at rdyer@iniusa.org, or on X @rhdyer. Please submit comments at yourvalley.net/letters or email them to AzOpinions@iniusa.org. We are committed to publishing a wide variety of reader opinions, as long as they meet our Civility Guidelines, https://www.yourvalley.net/civility-checklist/.

Richard Dyer
Managing Editor | East Valley

rdyer@iniusa.org

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.