An iconic Scottsdale resort is looking to up its game.The Fairmont Scottsdale Princess filed a request to the city of Scottsdale to update its master plan. The request, which will be considered by the Scottsdale Planning Commission on Feb. 28, seeks to amend development standards and increase the number of hotel guest rooms.The Princess, located at 7575 E. Princess Drive in north Scottsdale on roughly 66 acres, is looking to build a 155-unit guest wing with underground parking; 43 Sunset Villas/bungalows; a high-end Michael Mina Italian restaurant; an indoor/outdoor coffee roasterie; a conference center and a new ballroom on-site.The new guest wing would rise four stories on the southeast corner of Cottage Terrace Lane and Hacienda Way.The 43 bungalows that the Princess looks to build at the resort have been previously approved, but never constructed, by a past zoning case. The resort currently consists of 751 hotel guest rooms, with 61,577 square feet of conference rooms, ballroom and meeting spaces.With 750 rooms, the Princess currently ranks third on the Phoenix Business Journal’s List of Largest Phoenix-area Hotels & Resorts, only trailing the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown and the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa.The Princess envisions the concept for the new restaurant to be an Italian farmhouse “re-envisioned in a modern way for the Arizona desert landscape.” It would be located in the northwest corner of the resort property at the intersection of Cottage Terrace Lane and Princess Boulevard and situated in an “orchard of trees …
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