Good to see continued movement on this project. See where they pulled a sidewalk closure permit along their frontage about a month ago. But cannot find any other ASR activity.
This 138-room hotel is to be branded as a Marriott Townplace which means full kitchens in each suite. Not even the same clientele as the boutique hotel next to the Masonic building.
Developed by a long-time local hotel firm, Summit Hospitality, with Cline Design as the architect.
What is actually getting started here?
Could simply be stabilizing the site after it was used as a materials staging area during construction of The Acorn apartment project adjoining to the east in Drew’s photo.
Maybe a couple piles of pavement debris to be trucked away and some clean aggregate to spread over the surface while they go through the design and permitting process. See some pipe in the SE corner that might be stormwater detention related.
Probably timing this hotel for the convention center expansion. Same developers that built the Residence Inn next to the current convention center. That Marriott brand also has full kitchens in a suite format.
Summit is a patient developer that knows their market.
What is that imaginary nice tall white building on the left of that image? The Marriott Townplace? Not even close… LOL
Also, is there any plan to actually fix up that Prince Hall building? It’s looked like crap for so long.
Yes, that’s part of this same project.
Not mentioned in any of the recent articles but the Masonic building receives a $750K grant from this development as a condition of approval.
How they spend that is presumably up to them. There must be internal infrastructure items that also need to be addressed. But surely the hotel would like to see some exterior repairs.
my favorite part of the renderings: the new hotel honored existing conditions of the existing hood-adjacent barred doors and windows in the existing Masonic building. Historic Preservation and all that… LOL
the AI knows the building will never be fixed up, even if they are granted the money.
Y’all… the renovation of this building is literally PART of this entire project hahahaha. I don’t know why you doubt they’ll follow through when it will directly impact the success of the adjacent new hotel!
Also just want to shout out the thrift store that opened up on the other side of that building, the building itself is in rough shape of course but I was happy to see some retail open up in there. It’s a nice shop.
There’s also a barbershop and salon that seems to have been there for a long time.
THIS type of infill is exactly the type of non-cookie cutter project we should be celebrating. More funky good stuff, please and thanks…..!
Any update on this? Having more duplexes in this area would be great.
