Scottsdale resorts set for development

Scottsdale is poised for another wave of resort development with three properties that could add 1,000 rooms, villas and casitas over the next four years. The Reserve, Reata Ranch and Sereno Canyon all would be built north of the McDowell Mountains and adjacent to the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. "This will broaden and deepen the resort offerings for Scottsdale on the world stage," said Taber Anderson, who is developing Reata Ranch on 220 acres southeast of 128th Street and Rio Verde Drive/Dynamite Boulevard. Scottsdale has not added a resort since 2000 when the Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North opened, and the northeast Valley has not seen a surge in hotel rooms like this since 2002 when the JW Marriott Desert Ridge and Westin Kierland resorts opened nearly 1,700 rooms. The Sereno Canyon Spa & Resort is the latest resort to surface, with plans submitted last month to revise what had been conceived as a gated community of 128 homes on 350 acres. Only nine lots have been sold over the past four years, but no homes have been built. "We have seen the market for large-lot residential (homes) fall off the edge of the world," said Steven Voss, president of LVA Urban Design Studio, who is involved in Sereno Canyon's design.

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