There’s a new Fairfield Inn and Suites coming to Lower Highland at the corner of W. 27th Avenue and Wyandot Street; the former location of a dilapidated Budget Host Inn that was demolished in 2014.
Here’s the site outlined in yellow on a Google Earth image from October 2014, where it’s clear that site prep for the hotel had already begun. Also in the aerial image, the building to the right (east) of the new hotel site is no longer there. That’s the former Denver Public Schools Contemporary Learning Academy that was razed earlier this year to make way for a new apartment project we reported on in February.
According to BusinessDen, the new hotel will include 87 rooms in a five-story building, and should be open by the end of 2015.
Here is a site photo I took earlier today:
BusinessDen did not include a rendering in their article, and I’ve not been able to track one down either. If we find one, we’ll certainly publish it in a future post. Regardless of what the building may ultimately look like, it will be much better than the Budget Host Inn and a nice addition to a thriving mixed-use urban neighborhood!
at the rate this is moving, it seems highly unlikely it would be open in 2015.
More parking headaches coming soon to the Highlands. They have only 37 tiny parking spots for 87 rooms.
Considering everything that is within walking distance to that location, the need for a car would be extremely small. While it’s true that guests could potentially want to visit the mountains, they would only need to rent a car solely for that trip and not for their entire stay in Denver. Why waste the money?
Seriously? People drive to hotels. A few months back the owner of the Hampton Inn said over 80% of his guest bring a car to his hotel. This was during a presentation on his zone request to add a fifth story.
Agree more parking headaches coming to the Highlands.
Jerry,
Agree everything is walking distance. Big question is are you expecting the guests to walk to the hotel to rent rooms. ?What about employees are they walking also. 87 rooms and 40 tiny parking spaces….Why don’t you check out the parking area, I saw it and it’s pathetically small. If you live anywhere near this you are in for a real parking headache that no aspirin will cure. Good Luck.
One thing to consider, however, is the impact that the opening of the A line to DIA will have on demand for parking in Downtown area hotels. If I were from somewhere else coming to Denver for a Downtown-focused visit and staying at this new Fairfield prior to the line opening, I’d probably drive and plan to park at the hotel. After the A line opens, I most likely would take the train and then cab it to the hotel from Union Station.
Other cities’ experiences has shown that after you add a direct rail transit connection from your airport to downtown, taxi usage between the airport and downtown goes down, but taxi usage within and around downtown goes up, as there are now more people downtown without access to a car.
Ken, See my comment above.