City of Mesa Tries to Broker Deal for Cubs at Waveyard Site

With time running short before a November election on the matter, the City of Mesa is in the midst of an effort to squeeze both the proposed Waveyard project and the proposed Chicago Cubs spring training facility in a site located at the southeast corner of the Loop 202 and Loop 101 Freeways in west Mesa. The only way this can happen is if the Waveyard water park folks scale back their land usage to a shadow of the original plan or the Cubs settle for less room. There simply is not enough space to accommodate both developments as they were conceived.

It seems the city is more enthused about the possibility of this event actually occurring than is the baseball team. A current news report quotes a Cubs executive as saying “the team needs to know more before endorsing the idea.”