Most people know Old Town Scottsdale for its galleries, its restaurants and the spring training crowds at Scottsdale Stadium. Fewer realize that the same district is Scottsdale's second-largest employment center. Yelp, Zocdoc, Indeed and Digital Air Strike all have offices here, and so do hundreds of smaller tech, healthcare, creative and professional services firms.
The city runs Old Town as a working downtown. In January 2026, Scottsdale announced $47 million in committed investment in Old Town, covering paving, sewer upgrades and streetscape improvements. It also announced a new five-year economic development strategic plan that supports the businesses already here and helps attract new ones.
This mix of national tech offices and growing local firms creates its own set of technology needs. Teams work in walkable, mixed-use buildings and split their time between the office and home. Many handle sensitive client or patient data. IT support in Old Town Scottsdale has to account for all of that.
A Downtown Built for Work as Much as Leisure
Old Town is made up of distinct districts within walking distance of each other. Historic Old Town runs along Main Street and Brown Avenue. The Arts District sits along Marshall Way, and the shops of Fifth Avenue lead toward the Scottsdale Waterfront on the Arizona Canal. Scottsdale Fashion Square anchors the corner of Camelback and Scottsdale Roads.
The district also has a civic core. Scottsdale Civic Center holds the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, and the canal hosts Canal Convergence each year. City projects such as the Solstice Park upgrades and the Horseshoe Falls improvements at Marshall Way and Indian School Road keep investment flowing into public space.
According to the city's economic development team, that walkable setting and access to talent are exactly why employers choose Old Town. People want to work here, which makes it easier for companies to hire.
The Old Town Scottsdale Business Landscape Today
Office space in Old Town ranges from Class A towers to small creative suites. The Galleria Corporate Centre on Scottsdale Road has housed major tenants, including Indeed, which expanded there as its Scottsdale workforce grew. Office buildings along Camelback Road near the Waterfront and coworking spaces on Drinkwater Boulevard serve smaller teams and satellite offices. On the district's southern edge, HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center anchors a cluster of medical and specialty practices. The Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce and the city's Choose Scottsdale economic development office both support businesses in the area.
The district's industry mix includes:
- Technology and software, from consumer platforms to marketing tech
- Healthcare, health tech and specialty medical practices
- Creative agencies, design studios, media and galleries
- Professional services such as law, accounting, wealth management and real estate
- Hospitality and retail companies with local headquarters
Old Town's business community leans toward knowledge work. Its companies rely on cloud platforms, client data and staff who can work from anywhere.
Why Technology Matters More in a Mixed-Use Employment Hub
Each of Old Town's major industries brings its own technology risks. Healthcare and health tech firms handle protected health information under HIPAA, and ransomware remains one of the biggest threats to clinics and medical offices. Accounting and wealth management firms fall under the FTC Safeguards Rule, and they are frequent targets of business email compromise, where an attacker impersonates someone to redirect a wire transfer. Law firms carry confidentiality obligations that a single misdirected file can breach.
Creative agencies face a different problem. They work with contractors and share large files with clients, so SharePoint and OneDrive sharing permissions tend to spread over time. A folder shared for one project often stays open long after the project ends.
Hybrid work adds another layer. When staff move between an Old Town office, a coworking desk and home, the network perimeter matters less than the user's identity. Multi-factor authentication, Conditional Access and clean offboarding become the main controls. When our team reviews environments for companies like these, we regularly find MFA applied to only some users, former employees who still have access and more global admins than anyone realized.
Once a business has grown past a dozen employees and handles regulated data, fixing problems after they happen is no longer enough.
Why CDSI Supports Businesses in Old Town Scottsdale
Corporate Data Solutions has supported Phoenix-area businesses for more than 20 years. Our office on North 91st Street in Scottsdale is a short drive up Scottsdale Road from Old Town. We know the area and the kinds of companies that work there.
We focus on organizations with 10 to 100 users that run on Microsoft 365, which describes most of Old Town's growing firms. Our work is security-led and Microsoft-focused. Many new client relationships begin with a Microsoft 365 security assessment that shows how the environment is actually configured. From there, we fix the gaps and keep managing the environment.
Our clients get unlimited support hours with no surprise billing. When they call, a person answers in about 90 seconds.
IT Services That Fit the Way Old Town Businesses Operate
Old Town companies move quickly and work across locations, so our services are built around identity, cloud and responsive support:
- Managed IT Services for day-to-day operations, patching and device management
- Cybersecurity Services, including endpoint protection, threat detection and monitoring
- Microsoft 365 Security & Management, covering MFA, Conditional Access and admin privilege reduction
- IT Help Desk Services for fast, local support when something breaks
- Co-Managed IT Services for companies with an internal IT person who needs backup
- Strategic IT Consulting for budgeting, growth planning and vendor decisions
Predictable monthly pricing keeps IT a stable line item while your team focuses on the work.
Supporting Old Town's Next Phase of Growth
With a new economic development plan and ongoing public investment, Old Town will keep attracting employers. For a 15-person firm on its way to 50, the time to build sound identity controls, device management and backups is before growth makes them harder to add.
A local partner who knows Old Town and checks your environment regularly will catch problems that a distant help desk misses. If you want to know where your business stands, call our team at (480) 366-4567, email info@cdsi.support or schedule a Microsoft 365 security assessment.
