New Westin hotel, stores, restaurants, entertainment venues to repurpose factory outlet site
Sedona AZ (June 23, 2017) – Sedona Vista Village is set to transform the faltering 90,000-square-foot Sedona Village Factory Outlets with a renovation and by adding the town’s first Westin hotel to anchor the newly purchased 9-acre development located on SR 79 in the Village of Oak Creek, known as the gateway to Sedona.
The new owners of Sedona Vista Village will be demolishing a portion of the existing buildings on the north end of the property to make room for the hotel, Element by Westin. The three-story, nearly 120-room hotel, which is scheduled to open in late 2018, will include a pool, workout room and conference room.
Element by Westin is the latest boutique hotel offering by Starwood Hotel & Resorts, a subsidiary of Marriott International, Inc. The rooms are designed as free-flowing space, some with kitchenettes, that can be customized by guests to meet their needs. In addition, the hotel contributes to sustainability efforts through paper recycling bins in each room, recycled materials in carpets and low VOC (volatile organic compounds) interior paints.
Marty Aronson, head of Sedona Pine Tree Ventures, LLC, purchased the property in February from Oak Creek Development, LLC. A part-time Sedona resident, Aronson recognized the potential of the factory outlet location, which is one of the first retail developments visitors pass along SR 179 when traveling from the I-17 to the Village of Oak Creek and Sedona.
“With Element by Westin and our planned renovations, we are bringing new life to Sedona Vista Village, making it highly attractive to tourists and locals alike, by offering a unique vacation, dining, shopping, and entertainment experience in a prime location,” said Aronson. “We’ve begun making design decisions, and soon residents will see first-hand the benefits of our investment and the site improvements.”
The three existing retail buildings on the remaining 50,000 SF to the south will be renovated to complement the aesthetic of the hotel and will be available for retail use. Current tenants Famous Footwear, Tuesday Morning, L’eggs•Hanes•Bali•Playtex, and Kitchen Collective will remain. All surrounding storefront space on the south side is available immediately for lease.
The chief leasing agent for Sedona Vista Village is Jack McMahon of John D. Miller Commercial Real Estate Services, Inc., in Sedona. For more information on Sedona Vista Village visit johndmiller.com, or contact McMahon at 928-224-2709 or at jack@johndmiller.com.
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Is the drawing of the hotel what it will actually look like? No balconies? The Courtyard Marriott in Sedona is so lovely and fits in with the scenery. I can’t
imagine anyone approving a three-story building, blocking all the scenery of
Courthouse Butte and Bell Rock when coming in from 17. The drawing of this
building is just plain ugly, it has no style, no creativity, and does not fit in with the surrounding scenery.
I have to agree with Margaret. It’s awful. I thought they were going to put just restaurants and shops and make it like The Collective. “…attractive?” Hardly. “…residents will see first-hand the benefits…” Really? What residents are they talking about?
This looks stark and out of sorts with the surroundings. Why does it have to be 3 stories?
I agree with the above comments. This looks terrible, and has nothing to do with its surroundings. Is there a problem with keeping the color scheme of our town? And which codes were bent in order to build 3 stories? Please reconsider. Thanks.
I strongly agree with all the negative comments above. I visit Sedona 2 times a year and lived there for 7 years previously. This is the most egregious display of no taste
or expertise in the artistic/aesthetic design of the space in the area. It appears cheap and much too large for a “boutique” hotel and certainly will block views and beauty of Sedona for incoming traffic for years to come. Two stories and a redesigned vision for this space is needed. Why not add something classy and unique to the Village of
Oak Creek? The vision of that ugly pool out front for all to view is awful. Where are the trees, the shade, the sense of an welcoming mini-hotel for customers. I wouldn’t stay there at any price as it looks now. GET A GRIP. Sedona and the Village attract world-class visitors: give them a vision and experience they won’t forget.
Are those drawings a joke?!! Once again, someone’s tasteless greedy agenda at work. Put something attractive there that agrees with the natural beauty of Sedona and the red rocks. The view coming in to Sedona of Courthouse and Bell Rock are awe inspiring. It’s one of the views I can’t wait for my friends and family to see when they visit for the first time. Will someone please knock some sense into these people. Seriously. Grow up. I’m so sick and tired of the natural beauty of Sedona being covered up little by little over the years by garbage. Hey! How bout’ the CVS in West Sedona! We really needed that! Maybe we could even put a Six Flags inside Boynton Canyon! Genius! These people need to take a lesson from the looks of Tlaquepaque and the Collective. Please re-evaluate these plans for God sake.
Once upon a time, there were height restrictions. I guess we gave all that up to allow a forest of ugly metal cell towers that are about 500 ft tall. Now ANYTHING can be 500 ft tall (or it just wouldn’t be fair!)
Who in Sedona sold out to the Marriot? That’s the first thing that comes to mind. Who got paid off? or had promises of grandeur offered? First, they put a big hotel – which they will expand soon – across the street from a high school in west Sedona. Who’s idea was it to make it easy for pedophiles and drug dealers coming through Sedona? And there’s a BUS STOP in front of the hotel ! ? ! Let’s just hope our young, vulnerable teens don’t start showing up on the sides of milk cartons.
If residents have ANY say in the matter it should be this: for every unit the Marriot plans to build in Sedona, they should provide affordable housing to one employee. It would be MUCH better for the RESIDENTS who have no AFFORDABLE place to live to look to the fair thing to do. The Marriot does NOT pay their average worker enough to live in Sedona. If they want employees – if any BIg Hotel coming into Sedona wants employees – they need to help provide for them. Consider it the cost of doing business in Sedona.
Therefore, the outlet mall should be remodeled, using sustainable materials, into an affordable tiny home village, with art village and common areas with water feature, restaurants, indoor/outdoor market, music venue with dance floor, commercial kitchen and shops.
Building a walkable, art and heart centered shopping/art village with affordable units (perhaps built on second floor of shops) is exactly the kind of vision Sedona wants and needs.
Regarding the “forest of ugly metal cell towers that are about 500 feet tall:”
In danger of slipping through the radar is the fact that Consultant CityScape and City management are going with urban density coverage for Sedona vs. rural density. Obviously, the requirement of twice as many sites for urban density does not have the least negative impacts to our small, beautiful City.
A bad situation looks to be made far worse. The City needs to chart a new wireless infrastructure course.
I agree with Daryl and all the other negative comments. This design is an
insult to the majestic Red Rocks and reminds me of the post-war buildings
of Germany after WW2. The architectural design is unimaginative and not
at all enhancing for our Village. Put your thinking hat on and start again, please.
It was disappointing to view the designs for the new hotel in the Village. The Majestic Red Rocks deserve far better. Please try again.
Darryl,
You are so funny, the village is not in Sedona and Sedona has no say, so talk to the county. Darryl, It is called Big Park and is 8 miles from Sedona.
Darryl said.
Who in Sedona sold out to the Marriot? Thats the first thing that comes to mind. Who got paid off?
Darryl, zoning , zoning, zoning, understand zoning is what determines what can be built in sedona , changes go through P&Z the city council…. .
Darryl said.
Whos idea was it to make it easy for pedophiles and drug dealers coming through Sedona? And there is a BUS STOP in front of the hotel
Thes is is just crazy pedophiles and drug dealers doin business out of a hotel that charges $300.00 a night ? there are thousands of hotels next to schools all over America,
and we all know high school kids have the best drugs.
Darryl also said
The Marriot does NOT pay their average worker enough to live in Sedona
Darryl please show us you numbers, please tell us what the G.M. makes a year the hotels staff etc ….please Show us what you based your statement on.
Steve – you are NOT funny, you are not even educated or in touch with the people living in Sedona. You have swallowed up Agenda 21 hook, line, and sinker.
If you think for one minute that one group – zoning – made the decision for the Marriott to come to Sedona you are really naive.
And apparently you are not following the stories lately about pedogate and the large numbers of wealthy and well-knowns that are being arrested every day. That you say that’s not happening makes me wonder about you and how many pedos and drug pushers/users you have played a host to.
The GM is NOT an AVERAGE worker. I’m not talking about engineers or managers either. Your response is purely idiotic because you KNEW what I meant. Front desk clerks, bellhops, dishwashers, housekeepers – Marriott pays less than $25k a year in Sedona. Look it up. That’s not enough to live on, much less support a family.
Marriott and other hotels, if they wish to do business in Sedona should provide affordable housing to at least one of these low-paid employees for every room they build in Sedona. That’s the least they can do to make this a better place.
We all know that you are a mouth piece for the Chamber of Commerce, so it really doesn’t matter if the hotel is in uptown or the middle of the VOC – it’s still a part of the businesses that the Chamber pushes and it’s creating hardships on the residents and their families because they are treated like slaves.