Valvoline vehicle service, repair facility planned in Mesa

By Richard Dyer
Twitter: @RHDyer

A vehicle service and repair facility is to be constructed in Mesa west of Signal Butte Road on the south side of Guadalupe Road.

Slate gray metal wall panel, matte black metal canopy and coping, an Amarillo white exterior finish, custom cast stone slate, stacked stone veneer, and red bollards/guard posts to protect the structure are planned, according to a color and materials chart shown at the Feb. 9 Zoom meeting of the Mesa Design Review Board.

Hayley Bancroft of GreenbergFarrow is the applicant and Tina Kelty of KEMF GB PAD LLC is the owner.

“The site is vacant now. It is a request for a Valvoline oil change drive-thru,” Mesa Planner Wahid Alam said at the meeting. “The building is connected with the rest of the group commercial so you share the same driveway with the (Legacy Traditional) school from Guadalupe and the same driveway off of Signal Butte with Salad and Go and the recently approved Someburros to the south.”

Sixteen trees are to be planted, including 36-inch box palo verde and the others in the 24-inch box size, he said.

The Amarillo white planned for the building is not good alongside the gray colors, board member Jeanette Knudsen said.

“I’m thinking that maybe if you took a look at a beige that has a green undertone would go much nicer with the grays that are in this palette,” she said. “I would definitely take a look at the Amarillo white that is selected to go. Because that’s a pretty large ... color area there.”

As a design element, a metal panel corner element should not be used on the south elevation. It could be stopped on top of the wainscot, board member Paul Johnson said.

“It just looks odd to have that material come in and pierce the base of your building,” he said.

Richard Dyer
Managing Editor | East Valley
@RHDyer

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.