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Sunday, September 5, 2021
City’s ‘resilient’ economy yields high growth BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
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cottsdale’s economy during last fiscal year can best be described in one word – resilient. “That’s the word that kept coming up,” city Economic Director Rob Millar said. The city’s economic department’s
Scottsdale Fire honors 9/11 heroes, victims
2020/2021 annual report shows businesses moving into the area, higher-than-expected wages and promising vacancy rates. “It was a good year,” Millar said. “Was it a great year, no, but I think that’s (the fault) of the pandemic.” The City processed 803 new business licenses last year, despite the pandemic, which is down from 980 in the previous year.
Beauty salons were the most common new business type with 48, followed by other personal care services at 41 and fullservice restaurants, 38. “New business brings in diversified new revenue in the form of taxes, capital investment, and consumer spending,” Millar said.
see ECONOMY page 12
BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer
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he Scottsdale Fire Department is providing a special way for residents to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with a somber pop-up museum at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. The museum, open until Sunday, Sept. 12, features photos of victims affixed to props that resemble the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a wing of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania 20 years ago this Saturday. This is the first time in five years the department is displaying the memorial.
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Names of the 9/11 victims memorialized by the Scottsdale Fire Department are mounted on props such as this image of the Pentagon. Other props call to mind the World Trade Center while one prop is fashioned into the likeness of an airplane wing. (Pablo Robles)
“We thought, ‘How could we create this display that meets their needs and honors the situation here in Scottsdale?’” department spokeswoman Lori Schmidt explained. Having been involved in the pop-up muse-
um since it was first created in 2009, Schmidt is always reminded of watching the horror unfold on television in her family’s home.
see 9/11MUSEUM page 10
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