Forgot that this thread existed. Reposting an update here from the Grand Rapids General Development thread-
The City of Grand Rapids is hitting the 'time out' button on its plans for a new 400-room, 24-story hotel proposed for the DeVos Place convention center. The City has hired a consultant to reevaluate the market demand for the proposed hotel, which was originally intended to help fill a gap in the local hotel market. A study in 2016 determined that the area could benefit a new hotel with up to 400 rooms, but now there is much more competition, with about 800 new hotel rooms expected to online downtown soon.
My own guess is that the conclusion of the study will be it is no longer feasible at this time, at least not at the scale originally proposed -
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Study will gauge demand for more downtown Grand Rapids convention hotels
Jim Harger | MLive
March 02, 2018
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The Grand Rapids Kent County Convention and Arena Authority (CAA) is hiring a Chicago hotel consultant to determine if there's a need for a 400-plus room convention hotel at the DeVos Place Convention Center. The study also will look at the possibility and impact of building a separate hotel in a parking lot behind the Van Andel Arena. In both cases, the hotels would be placed on publicly owned property in competition with privately owned hotels in the downtown area...
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Here's the concept rendering and massing study from earlier in 2017, done by Progressive AE -
Source:
MLive | Courtesy Progressive AE