2nd St. & Drinkwater Blvd. — Approximate Site of Proposed Hotel-Apartment Development
HonorHealth, Scottsdale’s largest employer, wants to redevelop a portion of its property near Old Town, submitting conceptual site plans to the city for a luxury hotel and apartment complex alongside its medical campus at Second Street and Drinkwater Boulevard. The proposed complex would include two nine-story buildings with roughly 460 hotel rooms and residential units combined.
The project lands in a city that has been openly hostile to tall apartment buildings in recent years, even as it has approved high-profile hotel and condo towers. As reported by The Arizona Republic, HonorHealth is pitching the project on land tied to its medical campus near downtown, putting the health system squarely in the middle of Scottsdale’s long-running fight over density and building heights…