By Wayne Schutsky | Scottsdale Progress
Aerial photos of the land around Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard and Scottsdale Road from 1979 show a barren desert landscape with little development.
Fast forward to today and the bustling area is packed with residential, commercial and industrial sites with only a few pockets of empty state land remaining.
Scottsdale officials helped jump-start that development in the 1980s when it sought a developer to build a first-class resort on city-owned land in the area to support what would become the nearby TPC Scottsdale Golf Club.