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Scottsdale BuildsQuarterly Report
Quarterly report · updated 2026-08-08

What's actually being built in Scottsdale

Every commercial building permit, every certificate of occupancy and every food permit in the city, pulled from public records and put in one place. Free, updated quarterly, and nobody else does it.

$2.07B
declared construction value permitted since 2023
1,193
commercial, apartment and buildout permits
511
different builders at work in the city
21
commercial spaces cleared to open in Q3 2026

Start here

Four ways into the same data, depending on what you came for.

This quarter

What opened

Commercial spaces that got the keys in Q3 2026, with addresses and the centers they're in.

See the openings →
Three year record

Who's building

The contractors and developers doing the work, ranked two ways: by volume and by dollars. They're different lists.

See the leaderboards →
Under construction

What's coming

Commercial projects permitted but not finished, with declared values, so you can see what lands next.

See the pipeline →
Utility

Look up an address

Search any Scottsdale address for its permit history, contractor, owner and declared value.

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Method

How we count

Where the data comes from, what it can prove and the judgment calls we made. Check our work.

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Where it's all happening

Three years of commercial permits, plotted. The city is 31 miles long and almost everything worth money happens on one road.

SCOTTSDALE RDNORTHSOUTH
  • Under $1M declared value
  • $1M to $10M
  • Over $10M
  • The Scottsdale Road corridor
39%
of mapped commercial permits fall within half a mile of Scottsdale Road, on whatever street the address is on, in a city 31 miles long. Only 223 carry an actual Scottsdale Road address, which is what the ranking below counts. The road pulls in far more construction than its own address list shows.
Permits by street address, three years
Scottsdale Road
223
Hayden Road
66
Camelback / Fashion Square
62
Shea Boulevard
47
Raintree
29
Pima Road
25
McDowell Road
22
Frank Lloyd Wright
19

Every dot is one permit, sized by declared construction value. 849 of the 1,193 commercial permits are plotted here. The rest carry addresses the federal geocoder couldn't place. Another 8 geocoded outside the city so we dropped them rather than put a permit somewhere it isn't. How we count.

The five things worth knowing

  1. Two completely different leaderboardsThe busiest builder in Scottsdale isn't close to the biggest. Maris Construction of Arizona pulled 103 permits worth $34.2M. Layton Construction pulled 6 worth $280.4M.
  2. It's a long tail with a very short head511 firms pulled permits. 339 of them (66%) pulled exactly one. The top ten took 24% of the permits but 62% of the money.
  3. One corridor dominates223 business permits on the Scottsdale Road corridor alone, worth $522.6M. That's 3.4x the next busiest corridor in the city.
  4. Storefront buildouts are their own tradeA small group of specialists does almost all the restaurant, gym, clinic and salon buildouts in the city. If you're opening a space, that's the list you want.
  5. Permitted value nearly doubled between the last two full years389 permits worth $716.3M in 2024, then 582 worth $1.15B in 2025.
2023 (partial)
$125.8M
2024
$716.3M
2025
$1.15B
2026 (partial)
$81.6M

Declared value of commercial, apartment and buildout permits by year. 2023 and 2026 are partial years.

One caveat we'd rather state than bury
Scottsdale moved to a new permitting portal in January 2026 and the current year reads far too low against the three before it. We believe most 2026 permits aren't flowing into the public report yet, so treat 2026 as incomplete rather than as a slowdown. We're working on the gap.

Common questions

How much commercial construction is happening in Scottsdale?

The City of Scottsdale issued 1,193 commercial, multi-family and tenant improvement permits between August 2023 and August 2026, with a combined declared value of $2.07B.

Who is the busiest commercial builder in Scottsdale?

By permit count it's Maris Construction of Arizona with 103 permits. By declared construction value it's Layton Construction with $280.4M across 6 permits.

How do I find out what's being built at an address in Scottsdale?

Search the address on the Scottsdale Builds address lookup. It returns every building permit on record for that address since 2023, including the permit type, the owner, the contractor and the declared value.

How many businesses opened in Scottsdale this quarter?

21 commercial spaces received a certificate of occupancy in Q3 2026, which is the point a space is legally allowed to open.

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