After almost a year’s delay and a scandal involving a company employee allegedly calling a city planning commissioner’s employer, law enforcement and security technology company Axon hopes to move forward with its plans to build a new 74-acre campus in northeast Scottsdale in November.
Company officials hope to get on the Scottsdale Planning Commission’s Nov. 13 agenda to request a rezone from industrial to multi-use on the site near the intersection of Hayden Road and the Loop 101.
Axon founder and CEO Rick smith wants to build a 401,085-square-foot ultra-modern, world headquarters (which he says will look like “a starship”), along with 1,965 (1-, 2- and 3-bedroom) apartments and condominiums, five, five-floor retail buildings, one three-story retail building and a 435-key hotel. It will also have seven restaurants on site.
