Phoenix Focuses on Rebuilding Downtown, Wooing Silicon Valley

On "King of the Hill," the animated sitcom that aired for 13 years on Fox, the character named Peggy Hill once called Phoenix "a monument to man’s arrogance." Last summer, on a day the temperature broke records at 115 degrees, someone posted a segment on Reddit under the thread "Phoenix, Arizona, should not exist."

And that is just a small taste of the disrespect often heaped on the nation’s sixth-largest city.

By FERNANDA SANTOS

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