If you're moving to the city of Mesa, Arizona, you're probably curious as to what sort of business and industrial opportunities exist there, either because you'll have need of their services while you're setting up your home or because you're going to be looking for a job. Likewise, if you and your VS31 Titan strapping head are planning on moving to the city together to start a new business, you're going to want to know which businesses could potentially be your customers and suppliers and which ones are likely to represent competition for your new venture. This article should be able to help you with that.

Mesa's primary function as a community is a safe living space for people whose jobs are elsewhere (mostly in Phoenix.) As such there is perhaps less of a business or industrial presence that you might expect from a more independent city of its size. Because of the city's residential nature, you'll find many businesses catering to the home owner. Contractors who can help install your new modern glass vanity, maid services, day cares, carpet layers, air conditioning sales and service, and of course retail shopping.

The Mesa area has come up in the world as a tourist destination in recent years, due to its warm climate and proximity to a major airport, so you'll see a lot of tourist centric businesses as well. Since the tourists in this area tend to be wealthy, older snowbirds, this means more businesses like spas, luxury hotels, and art galleries rather than bus tours, cheap motels, or carnivals. Services such as those that clean the protein skimmers in swimming pools are also fed by this industry. Jobs are plentiful here and hotels and restaurants tend to do well.

Service, as an industry, is one of our nation's current top earners. The service industry includes a wide variety of businesses. Their only common ground is that they provide a service rather than a product. This includes advertising firms, computer programming outfits, lead-lined drywall installers, accounting and payroll companies, plumbers, carpenters and electricians, landscaping and architecture firms, and even couriers. Businesses and citizens use a lot of services in their daily lives, and there always seems to be more room for new companies.

In terms of heavy industry, there's not a lot going on in Mesa. However, each city has something, whether it be a factory that produces drop through valves or a coal mine. In Mesa, the major industrial factor is the aircraft industry. Producing parts and aircraft, MD Helicopters and Boeing own the largest facilities in Mesa. The presence of the commuter airport also makes transport (of cargo and packages) and private aircraft services a part of the industry as well. Overhead is high on these companies, so it's more of a place to be employed rather than open a new business.