Desert Ridge is a 5,700 acre master-planned communtiy located in Phoenix's Northeast Valley. Desert Ridge offers a vibrant mix of shopping, dinning, vacation retreats, recreational activities, employment opportunities, and world class health care facilities. This complete community features such noteworthy destinations as City North, Desert Ridge Marketplace, JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, Mayo Clinic Hospital and American Express Regional campus. Experience all that Desert Ridge has to offer in a thoughtfully planned, award winning community.
City North built on a 144 acre site within the master-planned community, one of the fastest growing and most demographically desirable communites in the country.
Within Desert Ridge, there are currently 6,500 single family homes and condominiums under construction and approximately 10,000 more to be built within the next 5 years.
The JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, with 950 rooms, is the largest resort and convention hotel in Arizona. Its amenities include 36 holes of championship golf, a 165,000 square foot meeting facility, 8 tennis courts, a 28,000 square foot spa, 10 food and beverage outlets and 252 time-share units.
Desert Ridge Marketplace, a 1.2 million square foot retail, dining and entertainment center, is adjacent to City North. One of the strongest retail destinations in Phoenix, Marketplace had more than 25 million retail visitors in 2004. Opened in 2001, its tenants include a 4,000 seat AMC theatre, Target Greatland, Kohl's, Barnes and Noble, PetsMart, Old Navy and 28 restaurants.