VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.
A proposal to build a $109 million, four-star Hyatt hotel next to the Virginia Beach Convention Center got its first public airing last week at a city council meeting.
The Beach has been trying to get a hotel built next to the conference center for four years, contending that the city loses convention business because it lacks one. Plans call for a 15-floor, 361-room Hyatt Regency hotel, additional city-owned conference space, and a pedestrian bridge to connect them to the convention center.
A competing proposal to transform the existing Doubletree hotel near the convention center into the city's main convention hotel is being considered too.
