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Meet the Member: Mesa City Lifestyle
Brett Merriman is the new owner and publisher of Mesa City Lifestyle. He played professional baseball for about eight years, including time in the big leagues with the Minnesota Twins. He then spent more than 25 years building businesses, including founding and running Big League Insurance, before moving into technology sales. In October 2026, he took over Mesa City Lifestyle because he missed being an entrepreneur and wanted to spend his days building relationships in his own community.
Mesa City Lifestyle is a free monthly luxury magazine that celebrates Mesa and the East Valley. Every issue is all positive and all local, highlighting local entrepreneurs, standout businesses, inspiring neighbors, and what’s happening close to home. With beautiful photography and premium print quality, it’s a magazine readers keep on the coffee table and pick up again and again. The publication also offers targeted Facebook and Instagram advertising, helping local businesses reach their customers in print and online.
What sets this company apart?
Mesa City Lifestyle is 100% positive and 100% local. Every page focuses on Mesa people and Mesa businesses, and readers notice. Readers keep the magazine on their coffee tables instead of tossing it. For local businesses, Mesa City Lifestyle is more than an advertisement. The magazine tells the story behind each business, helping readers get to know the people who run it.
Mesa City Lifestyle also offers targeted social media advertising on Facebook and Instagram, helping local businesses reach customers through print and on the phones, they scroll every day. It’s marketing that feels like community, not a sales pitch.
How has your company grown and developed?
Mesa City Lifestyle launched toward the end of 2024. Since then, it has grown into a monthly luxury publication with a growing group of local business partners who see the value of being part of the community conversation. In October 2026, Brett Merriman took over as owner and publisher, ushering in a new chapter for the magazine. The publication now also offers targeted Facebook and Instagram advertising, helping its partners reach local customers in print and on social media.
Mesa City Lifestyle is part of City Lifestyle, a national family of community magazines, giving it the resources of a national brand while keeping every story, photo, and partnership local. That combination is what makes the publication unique: big-league quality with a hometown heart.
What are you most excited about when joining the Chamber?
Meeting more of the people who make Mesa work. The Chamber is full of business owners with great stories, and finding and sharing those stories is what Mesa City Lifestyle does. Brett Merriman is excited to build real relationships, support other members, show up at events, and find ways to help Chamber businesses get seen by the neighbors they serve.
As an introduction of Mesa City Lifestyle back into the Chamber, Brett Merriman is offering any ad upgrade to the next tier: Free Editorials, City Scenes, Business Monthly and Events. If a business partners with Mesa City Lifestyle on a print and digital package, they will receive deep discounts and one month free.
Company Values
Brett Merriman
Publisher for Mesa City Lifestyle
Ashleigh Underwood
Editor for Mesa City Lifestyle
- Community first. Everything we publish should make Mesa a little more connected.
- Positivity. We celebrate what’s going right in our city.
- Relationships over transactions. Our advertisers are partners, and we treat their success as our own.
- Quality. Beautiful design and real storytelling, every issue.
- Integrity. We do what we say we’ll do.