The final vote has yet to come, but the City Commission passed the project on first reading this past Monday night. The hotel will be 75 feet high and contain 108 rooms. Click title for link to the Eliot Kleinberg article.
The original plans, as approved in February by the city’s planning board, call for a 108-room, 75-foot-high, 92,063-square-foot hotel with 2,650 square feet of meeting space and a 5,000-square-foot waterfront restaurant and bar. It would include a three-story, 131-space parking garage and a 44-space surface lot.
Amy Cosentino, lawyer for St. Ann Catholic School, just a few hundred feet from the hotel site, told commissioners, “the St. Ann community is fearful one of our staff or children will be hurt, or worse, if you allow this project to proceed.”
Most in the audience Monday were from the Waterview Towers condominium, next to the hotel site. Many Waterview residents oppose the hotel as proposed.