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Anhelo, the fine-dining restaurant at 114 W. Adams St., #C103 in downtown Phoenix, is moving. Set to close its current location on Saturday, Nov. 23, Anhelo is scheduled to reopen at 7007 E. 1^st Ave. in Scottsdale this winter. In its place, Chef and Owner Ivan Jacobo plans to open Flour and Thyme, a contemporary American bistro, before year’s end.

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“It is bittersweet closing Anhelo in Phoenix, but I am excited to give our downtown residents and visitors a new concept that will be more aligned with their needs,” said Jacobo. “We look forward to moving Anhelo into Scottsdale early next year and continuing to develop it into a global dining destination.”

While he’s looking forward to the opportunity to expand Anhelo into Scottsdale, the downtown Phoenix dining community holds a special place in Jacobo’s heart. He is thrilled to be continuing there with Flour and Thyme, which will feature a contemporary American Bistro-style menu. Flour and Thyme was originally going to be located in his own neighborhood of Tempe. However, serendipitously, that plan fell through, and new plans began to take shape.

Jacobo considers Flour and Thyme a “thank you” to Phoenix diners for helping him build Anhelo. He hopes Flour and Thyme will better serve diners there, whether they live nearby or are heading downtown for a game, concert or other event. Following in the footsteps of Anhelo, Flour and Thyme will offer an incredible menu of land, sea and garden dishes along with an excellent wine program as well as specialty cocktails.

For more about Anhelo, visit anhelorestaurant.com. For more about Flour and Thyme, visit flourandthymerestaurant.com.

Anhelo is an intimate fine-dining restaurant located in the heart of Phoenix. The menu is expertly curated by Owner and Chef Ivan Jacobo and complemented by an excellent wine program. The restaurant presents one-of-a-kind dining experiences and offers its robust wine dinner series, featuring the globe’s finest wine estates. Anhelo is set to open in its new Scottsdale location at 7007 E. 1^st Ave. this winter. For more: anhelorestaurant.com.

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After three years of operating on the ground floor of the Orpheum Lofts, chef and restaurant owner Ivan Jacobo is moving his fine dining restaurant Anhelo out of downtown Phoenix and into the heart of Old Town Scottsdale.

Known for its haute cuisine, white tablecloth elegance and award-winning wine list, Ahnelo’s last day of service will be Nov. 23. Jacobo says the final tasting menu will feature his favorite courses from menus over the years for the “one last hurrah” in that location.

Jacobo aims to debut Anhelo in its new location at the southeast corner of Goldwater Boulevard and First Avenue on Feb. 14, 2025.

At a tree-lined spot where lush foliage will greet diners approaching the door, the entry will feature a water fountain, picturesque flowers, romantic lanterns and other fixtures to set the mood. Customers will be welcomed with a tasting pour of bubbles.

“Fine dining is an experience that should start at the moment you walk in the door,” Jacobo says. “Here, it felt like I had the opportunity to take Anhelo to the next level, where we create an experience that begins when you walk toward the restaurant.”

Born in Mexico and raised in Goodyear since he was 3 years old, Jacobo originally didn’t plan on helming a fine dining restaurant. But, Anhelo evolved into one, fueled by the chef's creative and sophisticated dishes and a Wine Spectator award-winning wine list.

When the chance to move into Old Town presented itself, Jacobo saw the opportunity to take his hospitality dreams even further, with a new build, no expense spared and just about every desired detail coming to fruition, including an expansive patio and ample parking lot. Both are amenities he lacks in downtown Phoenix.

“I have an opportunity to create a dream restaurant that any chef would die for,” Jacobo says.

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However, this doesn’t mean the Orpheum Lofts space will sit vacant.

Jacobo plans to move his new concept Flour & Thyme into Anhelo’s spot and start churning out a tasting menu and a la carte dishes on Dec. 6.

A slightly more relaxed version of its sister restaurant, Flour & Thyme was slated to open earlier this year in central Tempe, within walking distance of Jacobo’s home. However, that deal fell through.

As he's moving Anhelo to Scottsdale, Jacobo also saw an opportunity to open Flour & Thyme in its former space. Here, diners will discover an elegant atmosphere but with less formal touches, like natural stone tables rather than those covered with white linen tablecloths.

Expect a menu of starters like foie gras, a raw bar and handmade pasta dishes. The main course lineup boasts slow-roasted duck breast with carrot puree, micro carrots and Arizona pinecone syrup; and bluefin tuna au poivre, Jacobo’s seafood version of the iconic steak au poivre. A seven-course tasting menu with a wine-pairing option will also be available.

“This is my love letter to downtown Phoenix,” Jacobo says.

Flour & Thyme

Opening Dec. 6 114 W. Adams St., C103

Anhelo

Opening Feb. 14, 2025 7007 E. First Ave., Scottsdale

Parsons Xtreme Golf – or PXG – the premium golf company and club manufacturer, is trying to highlight its retail offerings beyond golf clubs with a new pop-up apparel and accessories store with a six-month lease in Scottsdale Fashion Square.

On Nov. 1, Scottsdale-based PXG opened its first retail location that does not have its custom club fitting areas and golf simulators, but rather just its high-end clothing options, which the company’s chief marketing officer Renee Parsons said could benefit from a different retail setting.

“Our full-service PXG stores are beautiful – they're just a little bit darker and maybe a little masculine looking,” Parsons told the Business Journal. “With this one we decided to do a lighter, more fashion forward environment.”

The Fashion Square store has both male and female apparel, as well as golf, pickleball and other lifestyle accessories.

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The first-ever PXG Apparel Pop-Up retail store at Scottsdale Fashion Square will be open from Nov. 1 through April 2025. Expand to read more

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An apparel-only store has been talked about at PXG for a while. In fact, Parsons said the company was close to opening one in early 2020 but backed away from those plans when the Covid-19 pandemic hit.

After the pandemic, PXG made a big push for opening full-service retail stores across the country and internationally. With that push slowing a little — only four or five stores are set to open in 2025, compared to 10 in previous years — Parsons said it was time to try the apparel store again, and it also made sense to do it in Scottsdale, the company’s hometown.

“We're going into peak season for Scottsdale and Phoenix,” Parsons said. “It's golf season and we've got holidays. You have lots of tourists and lots of things going on in the Valley. We'll capitalize on the Phoenix Open and then we launch our Spring/Summer Collection March 1.”

The company worked with Macerich Co. (NYSE: MAC), the owner and management company of Scottsdale Fashion Square and several other malls in the Valley to work out the details for the new store.

PXG opened in Fashion Square’s so-called Luxury Wing, and while the brand differs from Prada or Dior, Parsons said there is crossover with PXG’s target customers and luxury shoppers, and she pairs a lot of her PXG products with designer labels.

The new store is meant to serve multiple functions: introduce the brand to more people, show off the high-quality apparel, drive retail sales around the holidays and make more connections between the company and its customer base.

PXG signed a six-month lease for the space at Fashion Square. If the store is successful, Parsons said she would like to extend their lease in Scottsdale and she is already looking at other geographical locations that could be good for PXG clothing stores, but the company has not yet signed any leases.

Parsons — who was honored as one of the Business Journal's Outstanding Women in Business in 2023 — was given the role and title of chief marketing officer in October. She said she’s been very involved with PXG, especially on the marketing side, for the past five years, so when the company decided to make some shifts within the organization, Parsons raised her hand for the CMO role.

“We're transitioning now over the next few weeks, and I'm really excited about it,” she said. “This is perfect timing as we're going into a New Year and looking at some big things for the PXG brand.”

Parsons said the marketing strategy under her leadership will focus on telling PXG’s story. She said as the company has grown its retail footprint over the past several years, it has become clear that the brand operates very differently from other companies in the golf space, and she wants to highlight PXG's unique story.

Parsons’ husband, Bob Parsons, is the former CEO of GoDaddy and the founder of PXG in 2014. The company has three standalone retail stores in the Phoenix area and 25 stores in total across the U.S. It also sponsors several professional golfers on the PGA and LPGA tours.

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The Caesars Republic Scottsdale has been open for less than a year but is already in the process of making significant changes to address issues the hotel has been facing.

During the Business Journal’s Restaurant and Hospitality Summit on Oct. 29, Rick Huffman, the CEO and president of HCW, the Missouri-based real estate development company that owns and manages the Caesars Republic Scottsdale, said it will be changing its relationship with Caesars and becoming a Hilton-branded hotel.

“We are becoming a soft-branded Hilton Dec. 1,” Huffman said at the event, which was held at the Biltmore Golf Club. “It'll still be Caesars Republic, and we created a [joint venture] with Hilton and Caesars and it will now be on the website under the Hilton brands.”

The Caesars Republic was lauded as the first nongaming Caesars-branded hotel and was expected to bring Caesars customers from other markets because they could book the hotel with their Caesars reward points.

“What we're finding out is [Caesars’] customers want to spend their points on gaming and not on hotel rooms,” Huffman said. “They've not driven the business we expected – we have had to rely on ourselves, staff and [online travel agents] for that business.”

Overall, Huffman said the property is performing very well and in some respects – particularly group sales and its meetings and conference business – has performed better than expected.

The 11-story, 265-room hotel located on the north side of Scottsdale Fashion Square mall opened in March 2024. The project cost $112 million to develop.

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One of the biggest changes in the works at the hotel will affect one of its restaurant concepts in the coming months, according to Huffman.

The hotel includes several eateries, but he said the focus of the change will be on Seven, the restaurant on the hotel’s seventh floor near the pool. The fine dining restaurant is operated by Scottsdale-based Riot Hospitality Group, which is also behind concepts like Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row, El Hefe, Farm & Craft, Hand Cut Chophouse and Riot House.

Huffman said Seven was performing well, but said he wasn’t happy with the concept in general.

“It's very profitable, but I don't like it,” Huffman said. “We're going to close it in May, and we're going to revamp it and remodel the whole thing into a different exciting venue, because I don't think we hit the mark on that.”

Riot Hospitality Group told the Business Journal that its leadership stands behind what they accomplished with Seven.

“We are very proud of Seven’s popularity, and its success exemplifies the exceptional hospitality service found in all of the Riot Hospitality Group venues across the county,” said Lissa Druss, a spokeswoman for RHG.

Take a look through the gallery below at the February grand opening party of the Caesars Republic Scottsdale:

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Caesars Republic Scottsdale, a project five years in the work, is now completed. Pictured is the ribbon cutting at the grand opening party on Feb. 29. Expand to read more

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High Street Residential (HSR), the residential subsidiary of Trammell Crow Company, and its JV Partner, PGIM Real Estate, announced today that construction is complete at Huxley Scottsdale, a 192-unit multifamily development in Scottsdale, Arizona. Located at 8555 E Raintree Drive, the complex sits on a three-acre site in the popular North Scottsdale submarket. Leasing is underway, and the first residents moved into the building earlier this summer.

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“Huxley Scottsdale provides best-in-class amenities, service, and location with access to employers and entertainment drawing residents to the area,” said Mona Nanda of HSR. “The property has attracted renters from all over the Valley, seeking the amenity offerings, luxury finishes, and privacy this location provides, along with our property management staff who go above and beyond to ensure residents feel at home.”

Huxley Scottsdale offers a mix of floorplans, including studio to two-bedroom units. Many apartments feature mountain views and work-from-home nooks, as well as shaker cabinets, smart appliances and in-unit washer/dryers, balconies and expansive ground-floor patios with desert-landscaping, 9-11-foot ceilings, walk-in closets, bathrooms with tubs and large walk-in showers, dedicated linen closets, and secured access from parking to each unit.

Residents at Huxley Scottsdale have access to a robust amenity collection, including, a fifth-floor Skylounge with sweeping mountain views and BBQ grills; a large outdoor pet park, as well as an indoor pet spa; a hidden speakeasy with wet bar; game room; a catering kitchen with a private dining space; pool and spa with an outdoor lanai; work-from-home suites and conference rooms with a Miele coffee bar and RO filtered tap system; a concierge-staffed lobby; a fitness and yoga studio; multiple lounge and seating areas throughout property; and dedicated mail and package rooms.

The property provides immediate access to Loop-101, Interstate 10, and SR-51, access to shopping and entertainment at Kierland and Scottsdale Quarter, and multiple resorts, hotels, and golf courses, such as the TPC Scottsdale golf course, home of the WM Phoenix Open.

ESG acted as the project’s architect of record and Weitz was the general contractor. Greystar is handling leasing and property management for the building.

Leasing information for Huxley Scottsdale can be found at www.Huxleyscottsdale.com.