THE RITZ-CARLTON, PARADISE VALLEY

Developer: Five Star Development Group
General contractor: Summit Builders
Architect: HKS Hill Glazier Studio and Peterson Architecture & Associates
Location: Scottsdale Road between Lincoln Drive & Indian Bend Road, Paradise Valley
Size: 110 acres

The $1.5 billion development includes a 225-room Ritz-Carlton hotel, surrounded by a residential community of single-family homes. The Ritz-Carlton project takes up 110 acres of a 123-acre site. An adjoining mixed-use component is still in the planning stages along the Scottsdale portion of the site. The project breaks ground summer 2008, with completion expected for fall 2010. Subcontractors so far include Burton Landscape Architecture, Civtech, Creative Design in Lighting, Fleet Fisher Engineering and Ten Eyck Landscape Architecture. Broker: S&P Destination Properties

 AZRE July/August 2008