Like a modern Stonehenge, rows of massive pillars guard swaths of as-yet-undeveloped desert in southeast Mesa.
Adorned with rebar and the hieroglyphics of freeway artistry, the towers soon will be topped with what planners see as a literal roadway to the future.
The vision includes high-rises just across the street from Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. It includes a 60-gate airport terminal just south of where the freeway will someday cross Ellsworth Road. It embraces the concept of a world-class “aerotropolis” that may become one of the state’s strongest economic nodes.
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