Two landscape-changing, “transformational” projects that rolled through Scottsdale City Council in back-to-back years face each other in a distorted, funhouse mirror – the kind you may have looked into at the old CrakerJax.

The Parque, billionaire tech guru George Kurtz’s “visionary” plan at the site of that former amusement park, must follow a rather restrictive development agreement with the city.

When Axon’s similar apartments-hotel-retail-office plan was approved a year after the Parque, it, too, signed a development agreement.

But Axon’s restrictions largely have gone up in smoke.

And that Axon/Parque funhouse mirror has flipped in recent months.

While the similar-sized Parque was whistling along with no opposition, in the face of a withering backlash after the 2024 City Council

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