The City of Scottsdale Community Design Studio building (also known in the past as the Redevelopment and Urban Design Studio Building) is located at 7506 East Indian School Road in Scottsdale, Arizona on the northeast corner of Indian School Road and 75th Street. The building sits on land that was part of Winfield Scott's original homestead. Later the land was sold to Charles Miller who operated a farm there throughout the 1910s and into the 1920s. In 1952, a structure was built that was owned and operated by the Ascension Lutheran Church. In its later life the building has been the location of Simmons Art Supply Business, a café/gourmet shop (operated by local restaurateur Carol Steele), and a Methodist Church.
It was on January 15, 1952 that the property was purchased from a Mrs. Ella Mae Foley for $5,000 and ground was broken for the church building on February 10, 1952 at 75th Street and Indian School Road. In 1960 because of a lack of room for expansion at the Indian School location, the congregation voted to purchase a ten-acre site at 7100 Mockingbird Lane in Paradise Valley where the church moved a few years later.
The City of Scottsdale purchased the property for $750,000 on September 30, 1996. As part of the restoration undertaken when the building became the City of Scottsdale's Redevelopment and Urban Design Studio, the Public Art Program selected artists Max Hammond, Paige Tuhey and Kristine Kollasch to paint murals on the interior walls of the building. Gilbert artist Sam Mindrum Logan, who also worked on the Bringing People Together art bus public art project, painted a mural in the outdoor patio of the building titled A Celebration of Diversity: The Lines that Connect.
CCL-HIS-2014-5274 is a PDF file of the recommendation to the City Council to acquire what became the Redelopment and Urban Design Studio to be used for staff and as a public meeting place.
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