Hyatt plans to operate a 17-story convention center hotel in the works for Miami Beach, Florida, once it opens in 2023.
A skybridge is expected to connect the 800-room Grand Hyatt Miami Beach to the Miami Beach Convention Center, which underwent a $600 million renovation last year. It will be the second Grand Hyatt to open in Florida after the one in Tampa Bay. The luxury brand is geared toward meeting planners.
The $400 million hotel, at 17th Street and Convention Center Drive, would be within walking distance of the ocean and the famed Lincoln Road shopping district. The hotel is designed to have 12 floors of guest rooms, two floors of meeting space and ballrooms, a pool deck and street-level retail, according to developers David Martin of Terra and Jackie Soffer of Turnberry.
In a joint statement, Martin and Soffer said the long-discussed project will help maximize the convention center “while bridging the physical gap that exists between the Convention Center District and surrounding neighborhoods.”
William D. Talbert III, president of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, said in the statement that the hotel will allow the area to be more competitive for conventions. More than half of 1,000 meeting planners surveyed last year by data and analytics firm STR said a hotel at or near a convention center is a "very important" consideration when selecting a venue. STR is owned by CoStar Group, parent of CoStar News.
“They want their clients to have a short walking distance to the convention center,” Jan Freitag, a senior vice president of STR, said in an interview.
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Miami-based Arquitectonica will design the hotel, and its landscape architecture division, Arquitectonica GEO, is part of the design team, which also includes project partner Craig Robins and the Stonehill Taylor and EOA firms.
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