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The Arizona Biltmore is a historic resort located in Phoenix near 24th Street and Camelback Road. Designed by Albert Chase McArthur, it opened on February 23, 1929, as part of the Biltmore Hotel chain. Actors Clark Gable and Carole Lombard often stayed there and the Tequila sunrise cocktail was invented there. It is part of LXR Hotels & Resorts.
The resort opened for business on October 1, 1988, [7] The hotel initially had 604 rooms, 132 casitas, a VIP suite and a presidential suite. The dome in the hotel's lobby was covered with 24 karat gold, and the cactus garden, which contained over 250 varieties of cacti, was the second largest in the state when it was completed. [ 5 ]
This is the Albert and Mary Garcia House located at 2201 N Dayton St. Albert Garcia became Arizona’s first Hispanic Assistant Attorney General, from 1937 until 1942. The house is in the Historic Coronado District. 56: Country Club Park Historic Subdivision: December 21, 1994 : Thomas Rd. to Virginia Ave. and 7th St. to Dayton St.
In 2004, prominent New York real estate developer Donald Trump proposed a $200 million luxury hotel-condominium development at 26th Street and Camelback Road in the highly upscale Camelback Corridor (near the Arizona Biltmore Hotel and the Biltmore Fashion Park shopping center) of Phoenix.
However, as downtown Phoenix continues its dramatic growth the Hotel San Carlos remains a popular tourist destination in the heart of downtown Phoenix, six blocks from Chase Field (home of the Arizona Diamondbacks), five blocks from Talking Stick Resort Arena (home of the Phoenix Suns), and less than three blocks from the Dodge Theatre ...
Hyatt Regency Phoenix Christmas Tree. The hotel has 693 guest rooms, two restaurants, a grab n' go market, a swimming pool,42,000 square feet (3,900 m 2) of meeting space, and a retail shop. [2] The Hyatt Regency Phoenix was chosen by the NFL as the headquarters hotel for Super Bowl XLII which was played in nearby Glendale in February 2008.
Prior to 1964, public accommodations in Phoenix and Arizona were segregated: African Americans were not allowed to stay in the hotels in downtown Phoenix. The structure, which is listed in the National register of Historic Places ref. number 95001081, is the only known surviving African-American boarding house in Phoenix.
There were also several gathering rooms in the hotel, the Turquoise Room on the 2nd floor where many wedding receptions were held, and a large convention center adjacent to the main hotel which could seat 1,600 called the Thunderbird Room where many of Phoenix's big events took place. [6] After closing as a hotel in 1980, the building's new ...