Cubs, Waveyard could share site at Mesa golf course

A scaled-back Waveyard water park could be built on the present site of Riverview Golf Course next to a new Chicago Cubs spring-training stadium, the Mesa City Council learned Thursday morning. The council agreed to let the Cubs focus on Riverview as their preferred site, leaving two others - one in northeast Mesa and one downtown - in the dust. This latest twist in two long and convoluted stories - one involving Waveyard, the other the Cubs - may transform the two entities into one intertwined strand of Mesa's DNA. The possibility of Waveyard and the Cubs splitting the golf course had seemed dead until Thursday. Waveyard, which has had trouble financing its proposed $250 million sports-themed resort, proposed a joint development with the Cubs last spring, but the Cubs said no.

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