Barstool Sports, the popular sports and pop culture website, is opening a large sports bar, Barstool Scottsdale, in the former Two Brothers Brewing & Taphouse building in Old Town Scottsdale.
The space: The 8,700-square-foot building near the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Drinkwater has a 1,700-square-foot patio along Scottsdale Road. Once home to Saddle Ranch Chophouse, it housed Two Brothers from 2015 to 2019 but has been vacant since.
The company: Dave Portnoy founded Barstool as a print publication in Milton, Mass., in 2003 and launched its website in 2007. Besides numerous blogs, podcasts, and web shows, it expanded into sports betting in 2020 with its Barstool Sportsbook app and now has an estimated value of $450 million.
Sports bar business: Barstool debuted its first sports bar in Chicago (pictured) in January and opened another in Philadelphia in March.
Did you know? Barstool Sports is the sponsor of the Arizona Bowl, which is played Dec. 31 in Tucson.
Opening date: Not yet announced.
