Courtyard Scottsdale Salt River
In January 2010, Salt River Devco and Courtyard Management Corporation entered into a partnership for the management of a Courtyard by Marriott to be located at the intersection of Chaparral and Pima Roads in Scottsdale, Arizona. Above is a rendering of the new property which will consist of 158 rooms, over 5,000 square feet of meeting space, and a bistro. The hotel will incorporate indigenous basket designs from the two tribes that constitute the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The hotel will be 100% Native-American owned and is set to open February 2012.
Guest rooms will display photography from Thoshography, LLC, a wholly-owned Native American company. The photo mural below for the lobby was commissioned by Salt River Devco through its wholly-owned subsidiary Ba'ag Ceksan (Eagle Mark), LLC, a limited liability company formed under the laws of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. In keeping with the spirit of the two tribes, a river theme will be visible throughout the hotel.
Logo design by Penrose Fulwilder.
Ba'ag Ceksan (Eagle Mark), LLC
C/O Salt River Devco
8800 East Chaparral Road, Suite 260
Scottsdale, Arizona 85250
Ba'ag Ceksan
Eagle Mark represents the coming together of people and spirit. Eagle Mark comes from the entrepreneurial spirit of a family and the vision of an Indian Community that culminated in the sighting of a desert nesting bald eagle (ba'ag) on the adjacent grounds, thereby making these blessed grounds (ceksan). Not only is the sighting of an eagle a spiritual experience but to see an eagle resting on the desert floor of an urban sprawl is perhaps a once in a lifetime event. Against this background, the Courtyard Scottsdale Salt River is the first Courtyard by Marriott to be built on Native American soil. This hotel development, which will be a custom creation unique to the Akimel Au-Authum (Pima) People and the Xalychidom Piipaash (Maricopa) People, represents the first of many successful ventures to come from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.
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