SAVANNAH, Ga.
Downtown Savannah’s hotel boom is about to resume and could doom prospects for a convention center headquarters hotel on Hutchinson Island.
Plans for three new hotels that will add approximately 375 rooms to the historic district have either been approved or are in the review stage with the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission. The projects indicate private investment is available to build new hotels in Savannah’s tourism district as the economy improves, local hotel operators say.
The available financing further underscores their argument against county taxpayers underwriting $50 million for the proposed $131 million Hilton to be built next to the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center.
The hotel would include 500 rooms, 50,000 square feet of meeting space and a parking garage.
