PHOENIX — About 2,000 new residences are set to open in downtown Scottsdale this year, and a series of retail and office developments is springing up along the Arizona Canal.
The city’s biggest condo projects, including the 700-unit Optima Camelview Village and the 198-unit Scottsdale Waterfront, are scheduled to open most or all of their residences by fall.
About a dozen other projects, including a six-story tower adjacent to Hotel Valley Ho and the residences at W Hotel, are scheduled to open before the end of 2007.
City officials are working on public art projects and improvements to the canal banks that will further transform the 786-acre downtown.
"We’ve never been busier," said John Little, director of Scottsdale’s downtown group. "In the last two years, we’ve almost doubled the number of special events that take place downtown. More and more people want to do events downtown because this is where the people want to go."
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Information from: The Arizona Republic, http://www.azcentral.com
