PHOENIX – The restaurateur Sam Fox from Arizona opens a luxury hotel in Phoenix. The internationally-inspired 141-room hotel called The Global Ambassador “will inspire and attract travelers from around the world to explore Phoenix in a new way,” Fox said in a statement Monday announcing the news . It will be located within “The Grove,” a new development under construction near 44th Street and Camelback Road in Arcadia. It’s the same area where the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury opened a new training facility. The hotel is expected to open in autumn 2023. News of Fox’s project first surfaced in 2019 after public documents were filed with the City of Phoenix, though details on what? The hotel would look like, the amenities it would have, and the schedule was unknown. Conceptual rendering / handout It is one of two projects under his newly formed hotel company Author & Edit Hospitality. Last month, Fox opened The Twelve Thirty Club, a luxury restaurant and lounge, in Nashville, Tennessee. Fox also founded Fox Restaurant Concepts and opened several restaurant brands including North Italia, The Henry, Flower Child, Culinary Dropout and most recently, Dough Bird and Fly Bye To Go. The Cheesecake Factory bought Fox Restaurant Concepts in 2019, although Fox is still running the hospitality industry. “With The Global Ambassador we are evolving luxury hospitality at every level and from every perspective to bring something truly remarkable to the well-traveled set that wants to be inspired and mesmerized in authentic and unexpected ways,” said Fox. Conceptual rendering / handout The hotel will also feature: Five Mediterranean-influenced restaurants such as Greece, Italy and Morocco; An 18,000-square-foot rooftop restaurant – believed to be the largest rooftop restaurant in the state – that will overlook Camelback Mountain; A wellness center with fitness, an outdoor yoga deck, spa and an exclusive members club “This is so much more than a hotel – it’s a luxury lifestyle brand that we hope will inspire and attract travelers from all over the world to explore Phoenix in a new way. The Global Ambassador is the natural evolution of my passion for creating unforgettable hospitality experiences, “said Fox. He worked with Common Bond Development Group, Nelsen Partners Architects, Berghoff Design Group and Testani Design Troupe on the project Several luxury hotel projects under construction in the state: The new Ritz-Carlton, Paradise Valley Resort at The Palmarie is under construction in Paradise Valley. The hotel is expected to open in Fall 2021. Ambience Sedona, billed as the first landscape hotel in Arizona Under construction in Sedona. The hotel is expected to open in the fall of 2021. Caesars Republic Scottsdale is Caesars’s first non-gaming hotel. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in early 2020 in Scottsdale north of Scottsdale Fashion Square Shopping Center, but construction has not progressed. A spokesman recently told ABC15 that the project and that a statement will soon be made ave two restaurants owned by Giada De Laurentiis and Seven, a pool bar belonging to the Riot Hospitality Group (Riot House, Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row, El Hefe). However, updated construction and opening times are not known.
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