With other areas seemingly more prominent in tech (North Scottsdale, Phoenix and Chandler) It doesn't surprise me that few have heard of it. I live right there at Guadalupe and Hawes roads just east of the "Dairy air" . Apple operates a datacenter/server manufacturing plant at Signal Butte and Elliot (Right across the street from this planned datacenter). The area has many things going for it over the other areas in the valley.

First power, SRP's main transmission line (500kw plus) runs right along the property where they plan to build with a substation right across the street from the planned facility.

Second the shear volume of raw land. The tech corridor is situated on the north edge of the Gateway Airport development area, which I would guess is 10 times larger then any other tech corridor in the Valley.
Third Gateway Airport (Former Williams Field Air Force Base) is the official reliever airport for Sky Harbor. ADOT just completed the first phase (single flyover) of a multi-billion dollar connection from the 202 to the Airport. which is immediately adjacent to the Airport. The Apple plant is 5 minutes from the Airport.
Forth the next biggest investor in the Airport area is ASU which bought a substantial portion of the base and built its Polytechnic campus there.

And Finally Fifth, The area surrounding the corridor and the Airport is made up of the very newest master planned communities. Eastmark being the most prominent (Old GM proving grounds) Its practically a destination place to live and attracts tech engineers. I would say that at least 25 percent of the GoDaddy developers that work out of the Gilbert office live in Eastmark or somewhere along that corridor. About 15 percent of my neighbors in the surrounding 3 streets are in software development, systems engineering or some kind of IT related field.

I've worked in the North Scottsdale, and Chandler tech areas and currently work in downtown Phoenix. As a former GoDaddy software engineer working out of the Gilbert office was by far the best of all of those worlds. But the others suffer from traffic congestion, long commutes, more expensive surrounding residential properties.

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 7:56 AM, <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

It is on Elliot Road just west of Loop 202. Ellsworth is further East.

From the description it would be in the area of Hawes.

On 2018-02-18 03:50, David Schwartz wrote:

There's not much out there, except for a lot of "dairy air"

Is this on the Ellsworth side or Hawes side?

-David Schwartz

On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:30 PM, Phil Waclawski <phil.waclawski@mesacc.edu> wrote:

I went to a sort of "conference presentation" at the Mesa Arts Center about the "Mesa Innovation District". I don't know if this is part of that or not.

I got the impression that the innovation district was supposed to be closer to down town Mesa.

Phil W

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 5:31 PM, Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> wrote:

That's pretty far east, just north of the airport. First I've ever heard of the "Elliot Road Tech Corridor", what other businesses are out there?

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On February 15, 2018 10:19 AM, <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/columns/money/mesa-lands-data-center-in-elliot-road-tech-corridor/article_82beaa48-fa6a-11e7-adee-b7f341298d80.html

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