By Francine Hardaway, Guest blogger | Phoenix Business Journal
After annexing miles and miles of land out as far as Cave Creek and Carefree, and buying a ranch to give all that acreage an assured water supply, the city of Scottsdale is coming back to a focus on downtown.
Like young people all over the country, local millennials are voting with their feet to be in downtowns and urban spaces. They seem to prefer what the Valley has a reputation for destroying: history.
It’s difficult to feel like you are an innovator in a sterile, new environment, but restorations seem to encourage entrepreneurship and startups. First of all, restoration of an existing space is itself a form of entrepreneurship; it takes vision, creativity, tenacity and execution.
