One of the most prominent resorts in the Southwest has just announced extensive expansion plans.
The Arizona Grand Resort & Spa, located at 8000 South Arizona Grand E, on the southeast side of the city, is a luxury oasis in a 17,000-acre nature preserve.
Built in 1986 as the Pointe South Mountain Resort, the property includes 744 rooms, private villas, indoor and outdoor meeting space, and an 18-hole golf course.
Guests of the resort, notes the book Moon Phoenix, Scottsdale & Sedona, “spend days at a time braving the ocean-like wave pool, tubing the lazy river, or plunging down the eight-story waterslide.”
Now, the owner of the resort, Grossman Company Properties, which is based in Scottsdale, has revealed plans to build 460 new rooms on the property.
Those plans also include new restaurant space measuring 35,000 square feet; the addition of some 49,500 square feet in meeting space to an existing 78,000 square feet; and new outdoor terraces measuring 7,300 square feet.
The Scottsdale-based architectural firm Swaback has been brought in as the project’s designer.
In its proposal to the City of Phoenix, the Grossman company says it wants to develop portions of the massive property that have to date “never been developed.”
At the same time, the company wants to update other portions of the property and facilities in an effort to maintain the “classic, timeless character of the Arizona Grand Resort.”
The Arizona Grand Resort is one of more than half a dozen hotels owned and operated by the Grossman company as part of the Classic Hotels & Resorts brand.
The resort last underwent a major renovation in 2017, a $13 million project which saw an updating of all of its rooms, conference space, and lobby, as well as the addition of 100 luxury villas.
By Garry Boulard
