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If you are searching for a home in Arizona visit the websites of these realtors for professional services, home listings and real estate services.  We have Realtors in Anthem, Carefree, Flagstaff, Paradise Valley, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Sedona, Tempe, Tucson and Tubac who will help you with your Arizona real estate needs.

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Anthem Bill Morris,  for new home sales and re-sales Carefree Gary Peruzzini People, not property, one at a time, covering Phoenix and Scottsdale Green Valley Dan Keys, for golf communities, retirement communities in Green Valley Paradise Valley Gary Peruzzini People, not property, one at a time Phoenix Real Estate Gary Peruzzini People, not property, one at a time, covering Phoenix and Scottsdale Tucson Parisa Arabshahi , Tucson real estate Jill Munger, Tucson real estate, Senior Relocation Specialist Desiree Mooney, Tucson residential properties, condos, townhomes Larry Mann, Buyers agent serving Tucson and Oro Valley Tubac Dan Keys, For real estate in Tucson and Tubac, ranches, custom homes

Arizona Indian Tribes

AK-chin       Apache     Gila     Havasupai     Hopi    Hualapai    Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indians

Phoenix and Scottsdale Realtors

Arizona Chambers of Commerce

Flagstaff: Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce
Mesa: Mesa Chamber of Commerce
Payson: Payson Chamber of Commerce
Phoenix: Phoenix Chamber of Commerce
Prescott: Prescott Chamber of Commerce
Scottsdale: Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce
Tucson: Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce

The City of Phoenix

Located along the banks of the Salt River, where early Hohokam Indians first settled, Phoenix, the state's capital, is saddled between dramatic mountain ranges to the north, south and east. Anchored by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Greater Phoenix is comprised of 2.5 million residents living in 22 incorporated cities-including Scottsdale, Tempe and Mesa-that cover the 9,127 square miles of Maricopa County. Year-round sunshine and mild temperatures make Phoenix America's premier desert city.

Located 1,117 feet above sea level, Phoenix weather is warm, sunny and usually dry. The yearly average temperature is a pleasant 72 degrees. Low humidity makes summer heat more comfortable than in other hot climates. Phoenix averages sunshine during 86 percent of daylight hours and has 300 sunny days each year. Travelers should bring casual clothes and light sweaters and jackets November through March.

A variety of museums offer indigenous history and art, as well as imported works. The Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art is well known for its Native American art exhibits, including the nation's largest kachina doll collection. The Phoenix Art Museum, host of the Cowboy Artists Show, has a permanent collection of more than 10,000 paintings, sculptures, costumes and other works of art from the 15th through 20th centuries.

Arizona Center The Arizona Center, an eight-block mixed-use development, features more than 60 restaurants, shops, nightclubs and entertainment venues, along with two-high rise office buildings surrounded by a lush garden setting. Additionally, a 24-screen movie theater complex opened at the Arizona Center in 1998.

Heritage Square Located at Adams and Sixth streets, the Heritage Square was expanded in the late 1980s to include the renovation of the Baird Machine Shop and the Rosson House into an upscale eatery, bakery and delicatessen. Recently, Heritage Square underwent another major expansion and now houses the Arizona Science Center and the Phoenix Museum of History.

Other interesting and informative museums are the Arizona Science Center, the Phoenix Museum of History, the Hall of Flame Fire Fighting Museum, Scottsdale Center for the Arts and the Champlin Fighter Aircraft Museum.

With more than 20 theater groups in Greater Phoenix, there is no shortage of entertainment. Phoenix offers everything from Broadway plays to lyric opera. The Herberger Theater Center plays host to many fine performances, including Ballet Arizona, the Arizona Opera Company and the Arizona Theatre Company. The Phoenix Theatre, founded in 1920, is the nation's longest continuously-running community theater.

The Phoenix Symphony Orchestra has been performing for more than 35 years with a season that runs from fall through spring. Performances are held at Symphony Hall with a special outdoor performance series. The Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra performs at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.

There are many opportunities to enjoy other music as well, including rock, jazz, country and easy listening. Some of the nation's best-known artists appear at America West Arena, Bank One Ballpark, the outdoor Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion, Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, Red River Music Hall, The Sundome, and at many area nightclubs.

Phoenix has garnered well-earned praise as one of the world's top five golf destinations. As the sixth-largest city in the United States, with nearly 1.3 million residents, Phoenix offers a multitude of cultural and recreational activities.

What makes the local golf experience?
With more than 180 of the state's 300 golf courses, Greater Phoenix offers abundance of challenging links. Statistics show that last year more than 2 million tourists and 500,000 Arizona residents spent nearly $1 billion on golf and related products, while playing 11 million rounds.

Greater Phoenix has added more golf courses than any place in the United States over the past six years. Since 1992, 585 holes have been added to the local golf inventory with 522 more in the planning stage or under construction. Arizona has more golf courses per capita than any state west of the Mississippi River.

Greater Phoenix gives visitors the opportunity to enjoy countless activities ranging from outstanding museums, galleries, performing arts, fine dining, horseback riding and cowboy shoot-outs. The climate makes outdoor activities, such as desert jeep tours, hot-air ballooning, and water recreation a way of life.

And we haven't even discussed day trips to scenic Arizona destinations like the Grand Canyon and Sedona.

• Arizona is home to the Grand Canyon. The canyon offers day hikes, overnight camping trips, river rafting, kayaking and some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. In addition, the Phoenix area has many local mountain ranges that offer hiking for all skill levels.
• Biking is a favorite recreational activity for many Valley residents. The area offers a wide range of terrain for mountain bikers and road cyclists. The local climate allows for biking virtually all-year round.
• Arizona is home to many large lakes including the Salt River lake chain, a group of four lakes, all of which can accommodate all types of water recreation.
• Many people don't realize that snow skiing is available in Arizona. Phoenix has two ski resorts within 3 hours of the Valley. The Snow Bowl and Sunrise Ski Resorts skiing from beginner to challenging.
• The Greater Phoenix area offers more than 130 golf courses for all skill levels.

Phoenix is one of only a few cities that has a full compliment of all four major sports. The Valley of the Sun is home to the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association, Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League, Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball and the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. The Greater Phoenix region also hosts annual major sporting events by the PGA & LPGA (Men's and Womens Professional Golf), and NASCAR and the Indy Car Series for racing enthusiasts.

Greater Phoenix and Arizona offer residents a wide range of educational opportunities. The Maricopa Community College System is the largest community college system in the country and offers educational opportunities for all interests. The Valley is also home to Arizona State University which is known for it's business and engineering programs. The University of Arizona, with its world-renowned medical center, business and engineering schools and Northern Arizona University, known for its nursing, engineering and physical therapy programs are located within two hours of Greater Phoenix.

The Phoenix metropolitan is also home to many private educational institutions as well as a number of private educational schools including:

• Grand Canyon University
• University of Phoenix
• Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management
• Ottawa University
• Western International University
• Maricopa Skill Center
• DeVry Institute of Technology
• Embry Riddle University

Quick Facts on Living Here

• Mass Transit
  Phoenix offers bus service throughout the majority of the metro area.
  Valley Metro: (602) 253-5000
  100% wheel chair accessible
• Drivers License: (602) 255-0072
  If you live here for more than six months, you will need to obtain an Arizona driver's license.
• Vehicle Emissions Testing: (800) 284-7748
  All autos and trucks here are tested to reduce emissions.

• Daylight Savings Time
  We don't believe in it here because we've all the sunshine you could ever want.
  
  

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  The City of Scottsdale

   

  Scottsdale's History

  In 800-1400 A.D., the Hohokams farmed the land we now call Scottsdale and built over 200 miles of canals to support their agrarian lifestyle. Army Chaplain Winfield Scott, the founding father of Scottsdale, arrived in town in 1888 and purchased land that he farmed with his brother, growing citrus, sweet potatoes and peanuts. The first one-room schoolhouse opened 1896, creating School District #48. That school was just east of the current “Little Red Schoolhouse,” which was built in 1909, and is now home to the Scottsdale Historical Society. J.L. Davis opened a general store and post office at the corner of Brown Avenue and Main Street in 1897, bringing retail to Scottsdale. Ingleside Inn (Indian School and 60th Street), one of the area’s first winter resorts, was completed in 1909. Other early resorts --some started as health camps-- were the Jokake Inn at the foot of Camelback Mountain (still standing at the entrance of The Phoenician), the Casa Blanca Inn (Chaparral and 68th Street), Graves Guest Ranch (NW corner of Scottsdale and Indian School Roads), Paradise Inn (Camelback Road west of Scottsdale Road), and Royal Palms Inn (Camelback Road). Cavalliere’s Blacksmith Shop at Second Street and Brown Avenue opened in 1910; it was the site for boxing and wrestling matches, too. A cotton gin opened at Second Street and Brown Avenue in 1920 to process Scottsdale-grown Pima cotton, which was in great demand during World War I. In 1937, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright set up his “winter camp” at the foot of the McDowell Mountains, creating what is now known as Taliesin West. Scottsdale’s Thunderbird 11 Primary Training Facility began training pilots for World War II in 1942. By 1945, over 5,000 had trained at what is now Scottsdale Airport (which opened in 1967). Scottsdale was incorporated on June 25, 1951, with the Charter being adopted on November 16, 1961. Malcolm White was elected mayor. He is credited with giving the city its slogan, “The West’s Most Western Town.” At this time, the city was a 2,000-person farming cluster. Baseball spring training came to Scottsdale in 1955 when the Baltimore Orioles played ball at Scottsdale’s new stadium. In 1967, Eldorado became Scottsdale’s first city park; McCormick Ranch was annexed. Scottsdale Community College opened in 1970. Scottsdale annexed an additional 36 square miles to the north in 1984, increasing in size by 25 percent. The Phoenix Open moved to Scottsdale’s Tournament Players Club in 1987 and became the most-attended golf tournament in the world. Scottsdale citizens, in 1989, passed the largest bond election ($287.2 million) in the city’s history by a 3 to 1 margin to build a new stadium, expand the historic Civic Center Library and make numerous road and park improvements. The City of Scottsdale was awarded the Most Livable City Award by the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 1993

   

  Demographics
  Slogan: "The West's Most Western Town" Population: 215,030 (July 2002) Size: 184.5 square miles, stretching 31 miles from north to south Elevation: Average is 1,248 feet above sea level (Scottsdale Airport field elevation is 1,508 feet MSL) Longitude & latitude: 111.93 degrees W, 33.50 degrees N
  Climate: Average median temperature is 70.3 F degrees, average precipitation is 7.05 inches per year, and average percentage of sunny days per year is 86 percent Density: 1,109 people per square mile; 2.22 persons per household (July 2000) Median age: 42.1 years (July 2000) Median household income: $61,700 (July 2000 estimate) Size rank: Fourth in total area and fifth in population within Arizona (January 2000) Education level: 42 percent of population are college graduates, 28 percent have some college, and 20 percent are high school graduates Seasonal residents: 34 percent from the western states; 21 percent from the southern states; 18 percent from the northeastern states; 17 percent from the north central states; and 10 percent from overseas Number of visitors annually: 7.2 million visited Scottsdale during 1999 Housing: There are 90,669 occupied living units in Scottsdale (Census 2000)); 69.6 percent owned and 30.4 percent rented Average cost of housing: Home prices range from $60,000 to $6+ million with $228,000 as the median price (1998). Unemployment rate: 2.0 percent (June 2000) Budget: Scottsdale's fiscal year (July 1 - June 30) 2000/2001 operating budget was approved at $335.7 million. Financial rating: Scottsdale's general obligation bond rating was upgraded to AAA, the highest possible rating, by Fitch IBCA in 1999. Only 12 other cities nationally enjoy the same rating from Fitch. Moody’s Investor Service maintained Scottsdale’s rating at Aa1 and Standard & Poor’s maintained our AA+ rating. Property tax rate: Among the lowest city property tax rates in Maricopa County, at $1.38 per $100 assessed valuation for Fiscal Year 2000. County: Maricopa County, population 3,072,149 (Census 2000) State: Arizona, population 5,130,632 (Census 2000) Official food: Chili, by 1994 mayoral proclamation

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