Scottsdale, Arizona Scottsdale, Arizona City of Scottsdale Downtown Scottsdale Waterfront Downtown Scottsdale Waterfront Official seal of Scottsdale, Arizona Seal Official logo of Scottsdale, Arizona Scottsdale, Arizona is positioned in the US Scottsdale, Arizona - Scottsdale, Arizona Scottsdale (O'odham: Va ai S-va oni; Yaqui: Eskatel) is a town/city in the easterly part of Maricopa County, Arizona, adjoining to the Greater Phoenix Area.
Named Scottsdale in 1894 after founder Winfield Scott and incorporated in 1951 with a populace of 2000, the 2015 populace of the town/city is estimated to be 236,839 as stated to the U.S.
Enumeration Bureau. The New York Times described downtown Scottsdale as "a desert version of Miami's South Beach" and as having "plenty of late evening partying and a buzzing hotel scene." Its slogan is "The West's Most Western Town." On the west, Scottsdale is bordered by Phoenix, Paradise Valley, and unincorporated Maricopa County land.
Carefree is positioned along the boundary, as well as sharing Scottsdale's northern boundary with the Tonto National Forest.
5.5 Historic properties in Scottsdale The region which would include what would turn into Scottsdale was originally inhabited by the Hohokam, from approximately 300 BC to 1450 AD. This ancient civilization farmed the region and advanced a complex network of canals for irrigation which was unsurpassed in pre-Columbian North America. At its peak, the canals stretched over 250 miles, many of which assembled remains extant today, some having been renovated and put back into use in the 20th Century.
Before European settlement, Scottsdale was a Pima village known as Va ai S-va oni, meaning "rotting hay." Some Pima remained in their initial homes well into the 20th century.
Currently, those Pima who live inside Scottsdale reside in newer homes clean water traditional dwellings.
Many Pima and Maricopa citizens continue to reside on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, which borders Scottsdale directly to the south and east. Chaplain Winfield Scott visited the Salt River Valley and was impressed with the region and its potential for agriculture. Returning in 1888 with his wife, Helen, he purchased 640 acres for $3.50 ($92 as of 2015) an acre for a stretch of territory where downtown Scottsdale is now located. Winfield and his brother, George Washington Scott, became the first inhabitants of the town, which was then known as Orangedale, due to the large citrus groves planted by the Scott brothers, who were known as adept farmers, capable of cultivating citrus fruits, figs, potatoes, peanuts and almonds in the desert town. Many of the community's initial settlers, recruited by Scott from the East and Midwest, were educated and had an appreciation for cultural activities. The town's name was changed to Scottsdale in 1894, after its founder. In 1896, these pioneer established the Scottsdale Public School system, and opened the first schoolhouse, which was followed by the opening of the first general store by J.L.
Davis, which also homed the first postal service for Scottsdale in 1897. In the early 1900s the improve supported an artists and writers culture, culminating in the opening of the region's first resort in 1909, the Ingleside Inn, positioned just south of the Arizona Canal and west of the Crosscut Canal (Indian School Road at about 64th Street) in what is today Scottsdale. Also in 1909, Cavalliere's Blacksmith Shop opened in downtown Scottsdale, and the initial schoolhouse was replaced by the much more expansive Little Red Schoolhouse, which remains standing to this day. While not in its initial building, Cavalliere's has been in continuance operation since that time. Between 1908 and 1933, due to the assembly of the Granite Reef and Roosevelt dams (in 1908 and 1911, in the order given), Scottsdale's populace experienced a boom, burgeoning steadily amid those years.
Although cotton is still grown in southern Arizona, Scottsdale's cotton boom ended with the loss of government contracts at the end of the war. The Depression years saw an influx of artists and architects to Scottsdale, which included, in 1937, the internationally famous Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 1937, Wright and his wife purchased 600 desert acres at the foot of the Mc - Dowell Mountains and established what is now known as Taliesin West, his winter home and his architectural firm's Southwestern headquarters. Scottsdale and the rest of Phoenix have seen an everlasting influence from Frank Lloyd Wright.
Among the more momentous affairs amid the years of World War II was the opening of Thunderbird II Airfield in 1942 (which later became Scottsdale Airport), where 5,500 pilot cadets received their major flight training before the war's end.
Scottsdale was the site of a German prisoner of war camp at the current intersection of Scottsdale and Thomas Roads in what today is Papago Park. As Scottsdale expanded, the Indian Bend Wash virtually bisected the town/city in half north to south.
After a primary flood in 1972, work on the Greenbelt universal began in earnest, and continued through 1984, by which point the primary Greenbelt was completed, although minor projects continue through the current day. Today, the 12-mile (19 km) long Scottsdale Greenbelt joins four town/city parks Vista del Camino Park, Eldorado Park, Indian School Park and Chaparral Park through a 25-mile (40 km) bike path.
The Scottsdale Spire, positioned in the southeast corner of Bell and Scottsdale Avenues in Scottsdale, was an Arizona State Capital Project designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The 1960s and 70s continued to see the city's growth, the populace exploding to almost 68,000 by 1970. Most of the unused property inside the town/city limits was to the north, so that was the direction in which the town/city expanded.
Rockefeller. When Anne died in 1970, the property was sold to Kaiser-Aetna for $12.1 million. This started a series of large-scale, master prepared communities inside the borders of Scottsdale, some of which encompassed Scottsdale Ranch (1978), Gainey Ranch (1980), Mc - Dowell Mountain Ranch (1992), Desert Mountain (1986), and DC Ranch (1990s). When completed, the 36,000 acres prepared for the Mc - Dowell Sonoran Preserve will be nearly one-third of Scottsdale's territory area, equal in size to Bryce Canyon National Park. From its official incorporation in 1951 with a populace of 2000, the town/city of Scottsdale has grown to a 2010 Enumeration count of 217,385.
Scottsdale is generally defined by its high character of life, and in 1993 was one of a several cities to receive a "Most Livable City" award from the United States Conference of Mayors. On the west, Scottsdale is bordered by Phoenix, Paradise Valley, and unincorporated Maricopa County land.
Carefree is positioned along the easterly boundary, as well as sharing Scottsdale's northern boundary with the Tonto National Forest.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, a several large manufacturing companies in the Scottsdale and Tempe areas used the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) in their manufacturing and operating processes. In 1981, TCE began to show up in two Scottsdale drinking wells, and in 1983, the Indian Bend Wash superfund site was listed on the Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List. Physical assembly of surroundingal remediation systems was instead of by 2006, with soil cleanup expected to be instead of in five years and groundwater cleanup instead of in 30 years. The town/city is loosely divided into four areas: South Scottsdale (Mc - Kellips Road north to Thomas Road), Old Town (Downtown) Scottsdale, Central Scottsdale (also known as the "Shea Corridor," extending from Camelback Road north to Shea Boulevard), and North Scottsdale.
South Scottsdale has for many years been the working class region of Scottsdale.
The median resale home price is $291,500, compared to $667,450 in North Scottsdale. A portion of Mc - Dowell Road in South Scottsdale used to be known as "Motor Mile," having at one time 31 dealerships represented along the street.
In recent years, many of these dealerships have left the city, including 6 in 2008 alone. South Scottsdale is the home to a new research and development office for Arizona State University, known as Sky - Song, a collaboration between the university, small-town business, and global companies. The evolution has thriving the research and evolution arms of a number of global corporations. Old Town Scottsdale is an region with many streets, old fashion stores, restaurants, bars, eveningclubs, and art arcades.
Scottsdale's chief cultural precinct is also in this area, which includes the high-end Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall, one of the twenty biggest malls in the United States,. The precinct has presently[when?] seen a revival, with new condominiums and hotels under construction.
Real estate in the Shea Corridor (Central Scottsdale) has increased amid the 1990s, and overall, the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale real estate market saw the biggest gain in home prices in the country during the mid-2000s with a 38.4% increase in value. There are a number of communities in this central region of Scottsdale that remain among the most highly desired residentiary areas in the urbane area, including Gainey Ranch and Mc - Cormick Ranch.
A large portion of Scottsdale Road in the Shea Corridor has been dubbed the Resort Corridor for the high number of resorts locating on the street.
North Scottsdale is presently the most actively advanced area of Scottsdale as it was historically the least assembled up.
This portion of the town/city also claims many of the most expensive homes in Arizona, with many exceeding $5 million in value. The city's borders are quickly expanding to the east and west in this area, including the Mc - Dowell Mountain range.
Much of the residentiary boom in North Scottsdale is driven by available territory to build coupled with the fast expansion of Scottsdale Airpark, the second biggest employment center in the Phoenix urbane, and estimated to turn into the biggest by 2010. The Scottsdale Airpark, home to over 55,000 employees, 2,600 businesses and 23,000,000 square feet (2,100,000 m2) of office space is expected to continue burgeoning by over 3,000 employees per year. Many meaningful companies are headquartered or have county-wide command posts in the park, including AXA, GE Capital, DHL, Discount Tire Company, Fidelity Investments, JDA Software, Go - Daddy.com, The Vanguard Group, And Quicken Loans.
Scottsdale is home to a large number of churches, chapels, temples, Jewish churchs, mosques and other places of theological worship.
Although the majority of Scottsdale inhabitants consider themselves of, or practicing of, the Christian faith(s) including Protestant and Roman Catholic the city's high populace growth over the years has resulted in a more diverse population.
Although lesser in number, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist communities also exist inside the town/city of Scottsdale.
The first church established in Scottsdale was the First Baptist Church of Scottsdale, which was assembled by Scott and his family.
Congregation Beth Israel, the earliest Reform Judaism congregation in the Phoenix urbane region is positioned in Scottsdale, and is the biggest congregation in Arizona. In North Scottsdale, there is the Jewish Community Center of Phoenix and the New Shul.
The tourism trade is Scottsdale's major employer, accounting for 39% of the city's workforce.
In 2005, Scottsdale thriving over 7.5 million visitors to the city, providing an economic impact of over $3.1 billion. The town/city of Scottsdale by itself is home to more than 70 resorts and hotels, boasting over 15,000 hotel rooms. This large hospitality market primarily caters to a higher-end, white-collar demographic. The town/city of Scottsdale is tied with Atlanta for fourth, after New York City, Las Vegas, and Chicago in the order given, as having the most AAA Five-Diamond hotels and resorts in the United States.
In 2015, AAA bestowed four such properties in Scottsdale with the highest honor: The Phoenician, The Canyon Suites, Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North, and the Fairmont Princess Resort and Spa. Aas of 2016, Scottsdale has the highest number of destination spas per capita of any town/city in the United States. The region's year-round warm weather and abundant sunlight is a primary factor in Scottsdale's tourism appeal.
Scottsdale is also a prominent location for cosmetic and plastic surgery. The aviation trade has also grown in Scottsdale, with the assembly of Scottsdale Airport in North Scottsdale, in the 1960s.
The immediate region surrounding the Scottsdale Airport, known locally as the Airpark, has advanced rapidly as a county-wide center of commerce.
3 Scottsdale Unified School District 2,583 4 City of Scottsdale 2,446 There are many shopping areas inside the town/city of Scottsdale, ranging from small districts to large centers.
The most notable county-wide centers include the Kierland Commons in North Scottsdale, and the Scottsdale Fashion Square in Downtown Scottsdale, a primary destination for high-end retailers.
These shopping centers (and others) in Scottsdale claim dozens of marquee brands that are unique to both Phoenix and the Southwestern region.
As of 2016, the Scottsdale Fashion Square was ranked in the top 25 most visited malls in the nation by Travel + Leisure magazine. It has persistently been one of the most profitable malls in the United States, being ranked in 2016 as the second highest revenue per square foot mall in the country, The center is anchored by Nordstrom, Macy's, Neiman Marcus, and Dillard's. Palmeraie, a 300,000-square-foot (28,000 m2), outside mixed-use universal prepared for the SWC of Indian Bend and Scottsdale Rds, has already received commitments from Hermes, Yves Saint Laurent, and John Varvatos. Scottsdale Arts District, adjoining to Old Town, highlighting Ed Mell's sculpture Jack Knife In 2005, the city's annual Scottsdale Arts Festival was ranked the number-one such event in the US by American Style Magazine. The highest concentrations of arcades, studios and exhibitions that are open to the enhance can be found in Downtown Scottsdale.
Its Scottsdale Arts District can be segmented into three distinct districts.
The biggest is the Scottsdale Main Street Arts District, home to the biggest and most diverse compilation of styles and genres, the more intact Marshall Way Arts District, and the more touristy and western-themed Old Town district, which has the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Scottsdale's well-to-do culture has been depicted by shows such as MTV's My Super Sweet 16, which filmed an episode in the region in 2006, and by the short-lived CBS reality show Tuesday Night Book Club. Perhaps [weasel words] the most famous present-day "cowboy" event is the Scottsdale Jaycees Parada del Sol, an annual month-long event that has been held in Scottsdale since 1954.
Cowboys and cowgirls from athwart the country converge in Scottsdale to participate in this cultural and historical event.
Since 1971, Scottsdale has been home to the Barrett-Jackson Auto Show.
Now held at the expansive West World exhibition complex in North Scottsdale, the event is an auto enthusiast's and collector's spectacle.
Since 2007, Scottsdale has been hosting low and high fashion shows in the annual Scottsdale Fashion Week (not quite comparable to those of New York City), including prominent department store line fashion designers and some higher end ones amid the month of November.
Taliesin West, architect Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school in Scottsdale Scottsdale is home to more than 125 experienced art arcades and studios, one of the highest per-capita anywhere in the nation. The town/city has quickly turn into a center for art in the United States.
According to the Scottsdale Convention & Visitor's Bureau and American Style Magazine, the town/city has turn into one of the country's biggest art markets, usually only sharing rates with New York City, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico in terms of commerce generated as a direct result of art revenue and purchasing.
Its arcades and studios are most famous for their and Native American themed art, though a burgeoning devotion to the intact arts has taken hold over the past couple of decades an element most visible by the large number of undivided art arcades which have opened along the Marshall Way Arts District, and the opening of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (also referred to as SMo - CA) in 1999.
Both are positioned in Downtown Scottsdale. Located in the Old Town precinct of Downtown Scottsdale, the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall is home to the two-theater Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, the Scottsdale Historical Museum, as well as the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Also positioned in Old Town, Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West opened in January 2015, featuring historical and cultural exhibits from 19 states of the American West, including Arizona. This is evident by the burgeoning number of style-conscious hotels that have opened up throughout Downtown Scottsdale which equally cater to the eveninglife crowds.
The majority of eveninglife is concentrated in Downtown Scottsdale, between Camelback and Osborn roads.
Similar to well-known eveningclub districts in other primary cities, much like Atlanta's Buckhead precinct and Miami's South Beach, most of Downtown Scottsdale's primary bars and clubs are generally positioned inside walking distance.
Southeast Scottsdale borders the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
For a several years, the Scottsdale Pavilions, a primary outside shopping center, marked the only commercial property operating on tribal lands.
In 1998, the tribe opened the first permanent casino in the Scottsdale area, Casino Arizona, at Loop 101 and Mc - Kellips Road.
Main article: List of historic properties in Scottsdale, Arizona There are various properties in the town/city of Scottsdale which are considered to be historical and have been encompassed either in the National Register of Historic Places or the Scottsdale Historic Register. The loggia contains images of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places with a short description of the same.
Scottsdale Grammar School, also called The Little Red Schoolhouse, assembled in 1909.
The town/city is the spring training home of the San Francisco Giants, who practice at Scottsdale Stadium in Downtown Scottsdale. Scottsdale Stadium also hosts the Scottsdale Scorpions, a minor league baseball team in the Arizona Fall League.
Although none play specifically in the town/city of Scottsdale, all of the "Big Four" North American primary league sports organizations have franchises and play inside the Phoenix Metropolitan Area NBA's Phoenix Suns, NFL's Arizona Cardinals, MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks and NHL's Arizona Coyotes, as well as a WNBA franchise, the Phoenix Mercury.
Since 2010, the historic WM Waste Management Phoenix Open Golf Tournament formerly the FBR Open and Phoenix Open, which originally began in 1932 - is now held annually each January at the Tournament Players Club (or "TPC") in North Scottsdale.
Citizens flock ritually to small-town favorite Camelback Mountain, positioned in the easterly section of Phoenix, just adjoining to Scottsdale, as well as the Mc - Dowell Mountains in the Mc - Dowell Sonoran Preserve, at the city's northeastern fringes.
In 2006, the Robb Report cited Scottsdale as, "America's Best Place to Live for Golf." The Boulders Resort & Golden Spa and Four Seasons Hotel|Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North were chose in 2005 as the second and fourth best golf resorts in the country by Travel + Leisure Golf magazine. Other golf courses in the region include Fire - Rock, Troon North, The Phoenician, and Silverleaf, and Desert Mountain.
Scottsdale City Hall, designed by architect Bennie Gonzales Scottsdale is governed by a mayor and town/city council, all of whom are propel "at large" to represent the entire city.
The distinct ive Scottsdale City Hall was designed by architect Bennie Gonzales in 1968, and was designed with an interior kiva for improve meetings. Public education in Scottsdale is provided for by both the Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD), which serves most of Scottsdale, most of the town of Paradise Valley, as well as parts of Tempe and east Phoenix, and the Paradise Valley Unified School District (PVUSD), which serves northeast Phoenix and North Scottsdale.
SUSD serves 25,668 students in 33 schools and employs 3,862, including 1,551 teachers. SUSD's 33 schools include five high schools: Arcadia High School, Coronado High School, Chaparral High School, Desert Mountain High School, and Saguaro High School.
The high schools which serve portions of Scottsdale are Horizon High School and Pinnacle High School. The major institution of college studies in the town/city is Scottsdale Community College, which opened in 1970 on the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Reservation.
In 1999, the school opened a second ground in the Scottsdale Airpark allowing it to serve the company improve and north Scottsdale.
Other establishments of college studies with locations in Scottsdale include the University of Phoenix and the Scottsdale Culinary Institute. Many students at close-by Arizona State University in Tempe live in Scottsdale and commute.
Scottsdale has a chief branch and four chapters inside the Scottsdale Public Library System. The town/city is home to Scottsdale Municipal Airport (IATA: SDL, ICAO: KSDL), a single-runway airport positioned in North Scottsdale.
Public bus service for Scottsdale and the Phoenix Metropolitan Area is provided by Valley Metro.
The town/city of Scottsdale runs a network of small-town neighborhood circulators, labeled the "Scottsdale Trolley." These connect at the Loloma Station transit center in downtown Scottsdale.
The Downtown Trolley circulates through downtown Scottsdale, and the Neighborhood Trolley circulates from downtown Scottsdale to neighborhoods throughout South Scottsdale, connecting with the town/city of Tempe's own no-charge enhance circulator, the Tempe Orbit at Roosevelt and Scottsdale Road.
Between December 2007 and 2009, Scottsdale was a member of the board of Valley Metro Rail line which joins the neighboring metros/cities of Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa. There was a study in 2001, and some discussion since, of extending the light rail line into Scottsdale.
The city's Transportation Master Plan identifies Scottsdale Road as the city's high-capacity corridor, which could be light rail, undivided streetcar service, or bus rapid-transit (BRT).
A street stockyards interurban line was proposed to connect Scottsdale with Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa as early as 1913 but was never built; Scottsdale is the biggest American town/city that has never had a rail line. Main article: List of citizens from Scottsdale, Arizona Scottsdale has seven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: List of historic properties in Scottsdale, Arizona Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Scottsdale, Arizon"Scottsdale Overview, p.
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