What is The REMI.?
The REMI., Scottsdale, Autograph Collection — yes, the period is part of the name — is a 12-story, 161-room hotel that opened in July 2025 on Buckboard Trail, in the middle of downtown Scottsdale’s Entertainment District. It was built by brothers Shawn and Steven Yari, the developers behind the W Scottsdale, right next to their Maya Day + Night club. During planning it was called the Maya Hotel. Shawn Yari later told the Scottsdale Progress that REMI is short for “reminisce.”
The hotel is designed as a social building from top to bottom, with public spaces by the Rockwell Group. At street level there’s a lobby bar that doubles as a way into Maya, F/Sixteen, a modern diner with boozy shakes, and Kauboi, a Japanese steakhouse with a robata grill and whiskey bar. On the roof is Allegra, a Moroccan-inspired pool bar around what the hotel bills as Scottsdale’s highest rooftop pool, with Camelback Mountain in view. The Kauboi Terrace looks down on the Maya dayclub.
Who it’s for: groups, bachelor and bachelorette weekends, and couples who want a stylish, new room steps from the bars and from Scottsdale Fashion Square. Who should look elsewhere: anyone who needs quiet on a Saturday night, families with young kids, and drivers who don’t want to pay for valet — there’s no on-site garage.
It’s the Entertainment District’s newest hotel and its tallest, and it was built to keep guests close to the nightlife.
How to do The REMI. right
Decide if you’re here for Maya. The hotel’s whole design leads to the club next door, and on weekends the lobby fills accordingly. If that’s your plan, it’s the most convenient bed in Scottsdale. If not, ask for a high floor away from the club and plan on some noise, or come for a drink and stay somewhere quieter, like the Scottsdale Marriott Old Town.
Go to the roof at sunset. Allegra’s view toward Camelback is the best reason to visit, guest or not. Arrive before sunset and order a drink; in season, expect a wait. Pair it with a stop at the AC Hotel’s Cielito for a two-rooftop evening — our rooftop guide has more.
Book the Loft Suites for a group. Two Loft Suites have patios that open directly onto the pool deck. For a celebration, they’re the rooms to ask about.
Eat in, at least once. Kauboi is the hotel’s showpiece restaurant, mixing Japanese steakhouse cooking with a Western theme. F/Sixteen is the late-night and hangover-breakfast option. The rest of Old Town’s nightlife, including Whiskey Row and El Hefe, is within a few minutes’ walk.
Skip the car. Parking is valet only, spread across a small lot, the W and the Galleria garage. From Sky Harbor, a rideshare is simpler.
Book the big weeks early. The WM Phoenix Open, Barrett-Jackson and spring-training weekends fill the Entertainment District first.
The family that built a district
To understand The REMI., start with the Yari brothers. In the 2000s, Steven and Shawn Yari set out to turn the blocks between Fashion Square and Old Town into what they marketed as a live-work-play Entertainment District. The W Scottsdale, which opened in 2008, was the anchor. Their hospitality group, Riot Hospitality, went on to run several of the area’s best-known venues, including Cake, Whiskey Row, El Hefe and Maya Day + Night. In 2016 their investment firm, Stockdale Capital, converted the old Hotel Indigo a block away into Aloft Scottsdale.
The next step was a hotel attached to their own club. In 2020, Scottsdale’s Development Review Board unanimously approved plans for a hotel of about 163 rooms at Indian Plaza and Buckboard, next to Maya. Under the working name the Maya Hotel, it was meant to open in time for the Super Bowl in Glendale in February 2023. Construction problems pushed it back more than two years.
The building that opened in July 2025 was renamed The REMI. and placed in Marriott’s Autograph Collection, the umbrella brand for independent-style hotels; Crescent Hotels & Resorts manages it and called it the first Autograph Collection hotel in Scottsdale. Its 12 floors make it one of the tallest buildings in a downtown known for low ones, and its lack of an on-site garage — guests’ cars go to a small lot, the W and the Galleria garage — shows how tight the Entertainment District’s land has become.
The hotel opened as the district itself was changing. In the mid-2020s, nightlife operators described a push toward a more polished, upscale crowd, and the city put money into its Spruce Up Old Town program. The REMI.’s Rockwell-designed lobby, Japanese steakhouse and rooftop pool fit that shift.
The REMI. completes a set: the W for luxury, the Aloft for value, and now a 12-story lifestyle hotel connected to the family’s biggest club. Whether that concentration is good for Old Town is part of an argument Scottsdale has had for decades about how much nightlife downtown should hold. For guests, it means a new, well-designed hotel with Maya next door.