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Downtown is Getting a New Hotel, Well a Condotel to be Exact
Thursday evening, Jake Christensen of Nelson Development and a resident of 418 Liberty Condos met with residents to share some really great news. The current unoccupied floors of the Liberty Building, floors four through eight, would become the new home to Hyatt Place Hotel. This would create the first condotel in Iowa where a building is part hotel-part condominiums. Personally, having lived in Florida, condotels were quite common and always some of the most desirable places to live. The residents were extremely happy with the news.
Construction on the new hotel would begin sometime this coming spring, with construction targeted for completion by the end of 2009. With just under 100 new hotel rooms for the downtown market, this would be Hyatt’s first entrance into the downtown Des Moines market and a first for Hyatt Place in Iowa. The hotel would feature a separate entrance than the current resident’s entrance, a first floor lobby, with small bar and food area. Condo residents would enjoy most of the amenities a hotel brings such as morning newspaper delivery, 24-hour concierge service and even a brand new swimming pool in the basement of the building.
Nelson Development would remain the owner of the building and hotel. Nelson currently owns other hotels, residential and commercial buildings both here in Iowa and other cities in the mid-west.
Here are some pictures of what a typical Hyatt Place looks like.
Posted under Living Downtown
Tags: Condos | Hotels | Liberty Condos
