posted on March 31, 2011 22:20
Developers filed a site plan for Hotel Van Zandt in the Rainey Street area, initially planned in 2008, but stalled.
According to the developer JMI Realty’s website: Hotel Van Zandt will be a 327-room, 16-story Kimpton Boutique Hotel with three levels of underground parking, a three-meal restaurant, 6,800-square-foot pool deck and bar, about 12,000 square feet of meeting space and a 1,300-square-foot exercise facility.
The project totals 346,000 square feet, according to Dallas-based WDG-Habib Architecture Inc.
San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group LLC runs a collection of boutique hotels and chef-driven restaurants across the country.
A JMI Realty employee declined comment and three Kimpton spokeswomen denied that they are working on an Austin hotel.
Hotel Van Zandt was initially planned to be a $100 million, 29-story hotel and residential tower, but was scaled back to 16 stories and finally put on ice.
3/15/11, Jacob Dirr, Austin Business Journal