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.

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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:

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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!