Anyone cruising past Scottsdale Fashion Square lately has seen it: cranes swinging, concrete pouring and a once‑empty corner of Old Town finally waking up. That long‑vacant lot at the north end of the district is turning into Hazel and Azure, a pair of luxury apartment buildings from national developer ZOM Living. After more than a decade behind a fence, the site is being remade into hundreds of apartments with new storefronts directly across from the mall.
Project approvals and basic facts
On paper, the development goes by case 37‑DR‑2021 and carries the address 4605 N. Scottsdale Road. Plans filed with the city call for roughly 532 residential units and about 14,610 square feet of ground‑floor commercial space, according to the City of Scottsdale. The city’s case file shows the Development Review Board signed off on the site plan in August 2022, with final City Council approval following in September 2022.
Who’s building it and why here
ZOM Living is leading the project after pushing into the Phoenix market in 2021, when it picked up multiple nearby parcels as part of a large land acquisition, according to ConnectCRE. Since then, local coverage has tracked ZOM’s growing metro Phoenix pipeline and its stated plans to bring hundreds of new apartments to Desert Ridge, downtown Scottsdale and the Biltmore area, per the Phoenix Business Journal.
What the towers will include
Design summaries and reporting describe Azure as the taller of the two buildings and Hazel as the larger footprint: Azure is planned for about 170 units with a rooftop terrace, while Hazel is expected to hold roughly 362 units along with most of the ground‑floor retail, as reported by AZBEX. Project documents and contractor materials list features such as a concealed parking podium, rooftop pool decks and resident amenity spaces, while the civil engineer’s project summary notes more than 800 combined parking spaces and planned sightlines toward Camelback Mountain and the Arizona Canal, per Atwell.
Public spaces and the Arizona Canal
The developer’s submittals show a pedestrian plaza tucked between Hazel and Azure and a canal‑side park with seating and deck space, part of an effort to make the block more walkable, according to City of Scottsdale documents. The plan also incorporates public‑art elements intended to knit the Fashion Square corridor more closely to the Arizona Canal, as outlined by Scottsdale Public Art.
Where the project stands now
Construction crews are currently on site and the towers are visibly climbing above the podium, a recent report by The Arizona Republic notes. ZOM’s broader activity around the Valley, including recent financing and ground‑breakings for other projects, suggests multiple developments are moving from the entitlement phase into full vertical construction, according to an Origin Investments press release describing ZOM’s Desert Ridge financing.
For anyone living or working near Fashion Square, that likely means more construction traffic in the short term and new storefronts popping up along Scottsdale Road over the next year as crews finish the podium and build out the residential floors. City watchers can keep an eye on Scottsdale’s online case portal and ZOM Living’s project pages for permit updates and eventual leasing news as Hazel and Azure head toward opening.
