The long-planned Embassy Suites project slated for the corner of 14th and Stout on Block 138 is finally ready to start construction. As you probably know, the old Motor Hotel Garage on that site was demolished, slowly, in 2007. For the past several months, a bit of remaining rubble and a few miscellaneous pieces of equipment have been the only things inside the fenced-off site.

Now, the foundation of the old parking garage is being removed. Here’s a photo, courtesy of my friend, Grant:

According to a representative of WPM, the developer, who was at the project site when Grant took this photo, the Embassy Suites project will be 17 stories tall and have 400 rooms, include ground-floor retail and a restaurant, and three levels of underground parking. The developer reportedly pulled their foundation permit with the city last week, and once the excavation of the old parking garage’s foundation is complete and the rubble removed, construction on the new hotel will begin.

I still have to figure out if the rendering I show for the project is the most recent or not, but it does appear that we’ll have yet another major construction project underway quite soon in Downtown Denver!