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Originally Posted by Leo the Dog
Scottsdale has a split personality. North Scottsdale is quite rural with open lands, housing developments with big houses on large lots, strong NIMBYism.
South Scottsdale, has higher population densities, older tract homes, more crime, but more accepting of transit and development.
Old Town is really exciting right now. Unbelievable how much development is going on there right now. Many bars/clubs are reinventing themselves and very large urban developments are underway east of Scottsdale, south of Camelback.
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Yea, the Old Town proposals and developments are the best in the Valley right now, IMO. They're denser and taller than anything in Phoenix, and most of the residential is condo vs. rental as compared with Tempe.
It gets a bad reputation because of North Scottsdale and because of its lack of height overall, but downtown Scottsdale is overall pretty impressive. It's just too bad about the immediate area around the mall: the fact that the mall is enclosed with suburban-style parking, and the empty lots near Safari Drive, which will fill up in time, but for now, leaves a pretty large hole in the streetscape.