By Tom Scanlon | Scottsdale.org
Old Town visitors, residents and neighboring businesses, look up – and meet Scottsdale City Center.
Though not by any means all of the piece, this is a big chunk of the massive, unprecedented “Scottsdale Collection” approved by a razor-thin 4-3 council vote Dec. 7, 2020.
Current Councilwomen Solange Whitehead and Kathy Littlefield cast two of the three votes against the project.
Five years later, the 3-acre Scottsdale City Center – one of the anchors, along with the Remi Hotel, of the Yari brothers’ Scottsdale Collection – rolled through a key pre-construction application with little pushback.





