Shawn Yari’s beach club-anchored entertainment complex is quickly taking shape in downtown Scottsdale’s entertainment district, but isn’t scheduled for opening
until next summer.
The city’s entertainment district already has the highest concentration of bars in Maricopa County, and the Association to Preserve Downtown Scottsdale’s Quality of Life, made up of downtown residents and merchants, remains adamantly opposed to the complex.
The complex is more than twice the size of Triyar’s Downtown Entertainment Plaza.
David Leibowitz,Yari’s spokesman, said the complex is going to be “cutting edge” and “fantastic.”
City Councilman Bob Littlefield remains opposed to the complex for numerous reasons. And the argument that it’s just replacing bar uses with new bar uses doesn’t hold water with him.
“The applicant admits that the number of people who are going to be there participating in those uses is going to increase, so just by definition, it can’t help but increase the amount of problems down there,” he told The Arizona Republic. “Unless somehow we have a new, unknown process that’s going to screen out the bad actors, it’s going to be more of the same.”
Councilman Dennis Robbins said parking will be “tight,” but it shouldn’t be any more so than before because “it’s bars replacing bars.”
Littlefield said the No. 1 problem when the complex opens will be the lack of adequate parking.
