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The Arizona Inn has been sold to Tucson investors, including the beloved former Wildcat Steve Kerr.

The 95-year-old resort was bought by local investors and veteran hotel operators who describe themselves not as owners but as “custodians of something sacred.”

The attempt to sell the 14-acre Arizona Inn property was announced in the spring of this year.

The new owners say the Audubon Bar at the Arizona Inn, 2200 E. Elm St., will be refreshed and reintroduced as Bar 1933, a nod to the year the inn’s original owner Isabella Greenway served as Arizona’s first congresswoman and when the inn served its first post-Prohibition cocktail.

The sale price was not disclosed Tuesday, and the sale had not yet been recorded in public records.

“Our family is grateful that such a strong, knowledgeable, and motivated group has come together to carry on and revitalize the traditions of warmth and hospitality at the Arizona Inn,” owners Patty Doar and Will Conroy said in a statement Tuesday. “We’re especially heartened by the group’s longtime Tucson ties and sincere affection for the hotel.”

Founded during the Great Depression by Isabella Greenway, the inn at 2200 E. Elm St. has been owned by her family since its inception.

The new ownership group includes Steve and Margot Kerr, Greg and Marla Amado, Phil and Mimi Amos, Kirk Saunders and Ann Peterson, Brian and Shamra Strange and Jim and Kerrin Berwick.

“Our families all have deep connections to the Inn, just as so many generations of Tucsonans do,” the investors said in a joint statement. “The Arizona Inn doesn’t need reinvention — it deserves devotion. In a world of manufactured hospitality, the Inn offers something increasingly rare: authenticity earned over decades.

“Our role as stewards is to preserve and protect that.”

Strange, the owner and manager of boutique hotels, will oversee the management and renovations of the hotel through his management company S Hotel Properties. The new team will refurbish and restore the property. Guest rooms will be refreshed, preserving their traditional Spanish Colonial style and enhanced amenities.

The bar will be reintroduced as Bar 1933, a nod to the year Isabella Greenway served as Arizona’s first congresswoman and when the inn served its first post-Prohibition cocktail.

The Arizona Inn, 2200 E. Elm Street, was built in 1930 and designed by Merritt H. Starkweather. It has a pueblo revival and a colonial revival design. The dining room is off the lobby.

The menu will preserve its classic dishes while introducing new flavors and seasonal dishes.

A spa will be added to the Greenway House and the inn’s gardens, and pink masonry walls and tile roof will be preserved.

The pool area will also be upgraded with striped cabanas and private cabanas that can be reserved. Poolside drink and snack service will be added.

A new private membership will be introduced for access to exclusive spaces for private meetings or dinners and details of membership pricing are expected in the coming months.

The Arizona Inn, 2200 E. Elm St. The historic boutique hotel opened in 1930. The new owners — including Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr — say the inn’s gardens and pink masonry walls and tile roof will be preserved.

The Arizona Inn has 89 rooms and about 5,000 square feet of event and amenity spaces.

Prior to building the inn, Greenway ran The Arizona Hut, a philanthropic furniture store to offer employment to disabled World War I veterans who were convalescing in Tucson, the inn’s history shows.

When the Hut ran into financial trouble following the stock market crash in 1929, Greenway built the Arizona Inn to preserve the furniture and keep veterans employed.

Original Arizona Hut furniture can still be found throughout the Arizona Inn, maintained by the inn’s on-site carpentry shop.

The Arizona Inn was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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Contact reporter Gabriela Rico at grico@tucson.com