Highlights

The Scottsdale Development Review Board voted 4-0 on December 11, 2025, to approve site plans, landscape plans, building elevations, and public art locations for City Center at Scottsdale Collection, a 14-story project proposed for 7201 E. Camelback Road in Downtown Scottsdale.

The project would rise on a 3-acre site and deliver 138 dwelling units alongside 35,288 square feet of commercial space and six levels of structured parking totaling 491 spaces. The parcel carries Downtown/Downtown Multiple Use, Type 3, Planned Block Development, Downtown Overlay zoning.

SmithGroup, Inc. is the applicant of record, with project coordinator Oz Wagner listed as the contact. Staff contact for the case is Greg Bloemberg of the city's planning department. Board Member Peaser made the motion to approve.

According to the city's case information sheet, design plans were first submitted July 26, 2023, under case number 19-DR-2023. Revised documents followed on May 19, 2025, before the board took up the item at its December regular meeting.

Who is behind the project?

SmithGroup, Inc. is the applicant of record on the city case file. The principals funding or developing the project are not identified in the Development Review Board agenda or the city case information sheet; ownership structure has not yet been disclosed in public records.

Development Review Board approval covers design and site layout. The project still requires building permits before construction can begin.

Where to find them

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  1. City of Scottsdale retrieved 16/05/2026 03:51
  2. City of Scottsdale retrieved 16/05/2026 03:51
  3. SmithGroup (official site) retrieved 16/05/2026 03:51

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