The building at 3737 N. Scottsdale Road held one restaurant for fifteen years. RnR Gastropub ran the two-story space, patio overlooking the street, until it closed in June 2025. This fall the same corner is getting two new tenants within weeks of each other: a Los Angeles sports bar and a rooftop brunch concept from a company that already runs several like it.
That corner isn't an outlier. It's the second wave to hit this same six-block stretch of Old Town in 2026, and if you look at who's actually signing these leases, almost nobody moving in this year is trying an idea for the first time. They're bringing something that already worked somewhere else and betting it works here too.
One Address, Two New Tenants, Ten Weeks Apart
General Admission is set to open this fall at 3737 N. Scottsdale Road, the address RnR occupied for a decade and a half. The concept comes from brothers Kamran and Kourosh Pourkazemi, who built the brand in Los Angeles before opening a second location at the UnCommons development in Las Vegas. Renderings show a dark, sports-bar interior with a long bar, booths, and televisions worked into the layout. Their Las Vegas menu runs wings, sushi, smashburgers, steak, and seafood, so Scottsdale is likely getting a version of a format the brothers have already run twice.
A few weeks before that opening, Evening Entertainment Group launched Holla Brunch Girl, a 21-and-over rooftop DJ brunch concept, on September 26. That's two days before this piece was written, which makes it one of the freshest openings on the strip. Evening Entertainment Group already runs similar daytime nightlife concepts elsewhere, so this isn't a first attempt at the format either.
The two-story building that housed RnR for fifteen years was built in 1967 and was marketed, before either deal, as a five-million-dollar single-tenant investment inside a federal Opportunity Zone. Whoever bought or leased that address wasn't betting on an unproven idea walking through the door. They were betting on operators with a track record.
The Corridor Already Reshuffled Itself Once This Year
The 3737 address is following a pattern the rest of Old Town already set. Earlier this year, six new restaurant and bar concepts landed inside a walkable rectangle bounded by Scottsdale Road, Camelback, Stetson Drive, and Third Avenue, and four of them are on second floors or higher.
Above All Else took the second floor of the former STK space at 7134 E. Stetson Drive. Austin Walter, CEO of Above All Hospitality, built the concept around rooftop views and an Instagram-ready dining room, which is a design brief the company has already used elsewhere.
Two blocks over, the former Buca di Beppo space at Scottsdale Road and First Street is becoming Drake's Hollywood, an 8,000-square-foot room with red leather booths, Art Deco chandeliers, and a valet-only entrance. This will be the brand's fourth U.S. location, joining outposts already running in Dallas, Houston, and West Hollywood.
The former cabinetry showroom that belonged to Roach's is becoming Ari & Lloyd. DEPWAH, a French-Vietnamese concept built around a rooftop lounge and an espresso bar focused on Vietnamese coffee and matcha, is set to join the same stretch later this year. And 40 LOVE, a restaurant lounge from co-founders Sean Mulholland and Avery Johnson Jr. developed in partnership with Niall Horan and DeAndre Hopkins, is already open.
Two blocks east on Camelback Road, the Scottsdale Waterfront picked up its own anchor when BOA Steakhouse opened there in the first half of 2026. It's a homecoming for Innovative Dining Group, which ran Sushi Roku at the W Scottsdale for fifteen years before stepping back. Executive Chef Brendan Collins, whose résumé includes Michelin-starred kitchens in London, is running the kitchen, and the Scottsdale location is the brand's first in Arizona to feature a partnership with the Four Sixes Ranch in Texas, anchoring the menu with an 18-ounce dry-aged ribeye. A few doors down at Scottsdale Fashion Square, Din Tai Fung opened its first Arizona location this year and has been drawing long reservation waitlists since.
What "Already Proven Elsewhere" Actually Buys a Diner
None of this means Old Town lost its independent character. Jacob Finley, who already runs the longtime Old Town spot Karsen's Grill, opened Ponderosa House in May inside the former home of Frank & Lupe's Old Mexico, a house originally built in 1922 near Marshall Way and Indian School Road. Finley knew the space and the neighborhood before he touched it. He's not a first-timer either, just a local one instead of an out-of-state one.
That's the actual pattern worth noticing. Whether the operator is a Los Angeles brand opening its third location, a steakhouse group returning after fifteen years at the W, or a longtime Old Town restaurateur adding a second address, almost nobody opening in this corridor right now is walking in blind. Everyone already knows what their format does before the doors open here.
For a resident, that changes how you plan an evening more than it changes what you're eating. Walking into General Admission, you already know roughly what you're getting because the Las Vegas menu is public. Walking into Drake's on a Wednesday means something different than walking in on opening weekend, because a valet-only entrance during a national brand's debut draws the kind of crowd that thins out once the newness wears off. The rooms aren't experiments anymore. They're rollouts.
Reading the Fall Calendar Like Someone Who Already Lives Here
Arizona Restaurant Week runs through today, September 28, which makes this the exact week to check in on what's already running versus what's still filling in. If you've been meaning to try Ponderosa House's cantina or grab a table at one of the Restaurant Week regulars, the window closes tonight.
The next few weeks are really about timing the new openings correctly. A brand-new room with a valet-only entrance is a different night out in its first two weekends than it is a month later, once the opening-weekend crowd has moved on and the kitchen has found its rhythm. If General Admission opens on schedule this fall, the smarter first visit is probably the third or fourth week rather than the first.
The geography also matters more than any single menu. Between the 3737 corner, the Stetson Drive rooftop cluster, and the Waterfront anchor two blocks over on Camelback, Old Town is compressing into a stretch that can be planned entirely on foot for the first time in years. That's a different kind of evening than driving between three separate strip centers, and it's worth building a weekend around now that the pieces are actually close enough to string together.
None of this is a reason to sell a house or buy one. It's just what's different on your block this fall, and why it's different from the last time a wave of restaurants hit Old Town.
If you're weighing what a home near this corridor is actually worth this season, or thinking about your own next move in Scottsdale, DiBiase Team can walk you through the current numbers behind the neighborhood you already know.
