For years, the joke on Lincoln Drive was that Paradise Valley had four resorts, three golf courses, and one reason to leave town after 6 p.m. If you wanted a real dinner that wasn't inside a hotel, you drove into Arcadia or Old Town. That geography is quietly ending this summer.
Two projects a mile apart are the reason. To the south, Kimpton Miralina Resort & Villas is deep into a $70 million transformation that will land Arizona's first Katsuya on the property. To the north, at Cactus Road and Tatum Boulevard, the redeveloped PV site keeps adding chef-driven rooms to what was, until 2023, a shuttered mall. Residents who already live inside the 85253 line, and the adjacent zips that share Camelback as a backdrop, are watching the two dining poles converge on their block.
The Mile That Rewrote Dinner
The Kimpton project is the more dramatic story on paper.
