What is Extended Stay America Select Suites Scottsdale North?
It’s a plain building in a very good location. Extended Stay America Select Suites Phoenix Scottsdale North is a three-story extended-stay hotel at 15501 N Scottsdale Road. Despite the “Phoenix” in the name, it’s on the Scottsdale side of the road. Scottsdale Quarter is a short walk south, and Kierland Commons is just across Scottsdale Road. Property listings give 1997 as the build year. That puts it among the older buildings at a crossroads that has since filled with newer shopping centers, apartments and offices.
The rooms are studio kitchenettes, simple and practical: a bed, a desk, a stovetop, a full-size fridge, a microwave, and cookware and dishes. There’s free parking, free Wi-Fi and a guest laundry. What’s missing is just as important. This is a Select Suites property, Extended Stay America’s pared-back tier. Housekeeping is available only for a fee, there’s no breakfast, and the front desk keeps limited hours with no after-hours check-in.
Who it’s for: people on a temporary job in the Airpark or Kierland, families between houses, travel nurses, and anyone staying a few weeks who wants to cook. Spring-training visitors on a budget also use it as a base. Who should stay elsewhere: vacationers who want a pool scene, daily service or a restaurant downstairs. The Westin Kierland across the road has all of that, at a resort price.
How to do a long stay here right
Arrive during desk hours. The front desk is open roughly 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends, and the hotel doesn’t do after-hours check-in. If your flight lands late, call ahead or book a night somewhere near the airport.
Decide on housekeeping up front. Housekeeping is extra here. Some long-stay guests pay for a weekly clean, and others just swap towels and use the laundry room. Either works. Just don’t expect someone to show up without asking.
Stock the kitchen on day one. The stovetop and full-size fridge are the main reason to stay here. A first-day grocery run, plus the restaurants at the Quarter and the Commons for nights off, makes a long stay much cheaper than eating out.
Walk across the road. Kierland Commons has Zinc Bistro and the original North Italia. Scottsdale Quarter has True Food Kitchen, Dominick’s and a movie theater. Few extended-stay hotels in north Scottsdale let you walk to dinner.
Bring the pets, carefully. Up to two pets are allowed, with restrictions and fees. Ask before you arrive.
Use the location for errands. You can walk to the shops and restaurants, and the Airpark’s offices are a short drive north and east. During spring training, the ballparks are a drive away, but the parking is free and you can cook breakfast in your room.
An extended-stay hotel at a crossroads that grew up around it
When this building went up, the corner of Scottsdale Road and Greenway was the edge of town. The Kierland master plan was approved on the Phoenix side of the road in 1991. The first residential land sold in 1993, the Kierland Golf Club opened in 1996, and construction on Kierland Commons started in 1995. The extended-stay hotel arrived around 1997, according to property listings, a weekly-rate option for the Airpark workers and relocating families north Scottsdale was drawing in.
It was also a product of a new kind of hotel. Extended Stay America was founded in the mid-1990s on a simple idea: a hotel room with a kitchen, a weekly rate and fewer services. It suited cities like Phoenix and Scottsdale, where people kept arriving on temporary jobs and needed somewhere to stay while they found an apartment or bought a house. The company built many similar three-story buildings across the country in those years, and this is one of them.
The neighborhood changed a great deal after that. Kierland Commons opened its first stores in 2000 as Arizona’s first lifestyle center. The Westin Kierland followed in 2002. Scottsdale Quarter opened in 2009 on the Scottsdale side of the road, just south of the hotel. Within about ten years, a budget extended-stay hotel near the edge of town was within walking distance of one of the Valley’s best shopping and dining districts.
The company changed too. In 2021, Blackstone and Starwood Capital took Extended Stay America private, and the brand later pushed its Select Suites tier, which trims services like housekeeping in exchange for lower rates. This hotel now carries that name.
Through all of it, the job has stayed the same: a room with a stove, a weekly rate, and a parking spot, for people who are in Scottsdale for a while but not staying for good.