Downtown Westin Hotel plans moving forward
Plans are proceeding for a 220-room Westin Hotel near downtown Milwaukee's lakefront.
An agreement to install a new city water main to serve the hotel was unanimously recommended for approval Wednesday by the Common Council's Public Works Committee. The hotel's developer will pay for the water main, which needs full council approval.
JSWD Wisconsin Venture I LLC plans to build the hotel on a 37,395-square-foot vacant parcel at 550 N. Van Buren St., according to documents filed with the city.
That site is between the U.S. Bank Center's Galleria and that office tower's parking structure north of E. Clybourn St. The hotel would connect to the Galleria level.
Plans for the $50 million project were first disclosed in 2014. It is to be completed by June 2017.
Westin is a higher-end brand owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. Other Starwood brands include Aloft, Sheraton and Four Points by Sheraton.
JSWD Wisconsin's manager is Edward Carow, according to the city documents.
Carow and Mark Flaherty own Jackson Street Management LLC, which operates the 160-room Aloft Hotel, 1230 N. Old World 3rd St., and the 205-room Marriott Hotel, 323 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Carow and Flaherty also are converting a six-story historic office building at 744 N. 4th St. into a 150-room SpringHill Suites hotel. That $30 million project is to be completed in April.
Reported by: JSOnline.com
An agreement to install a new city water main to serve the hotel was unanimously recommended for approval Wednesday by the Common Council's Public Works Committee. The hotel's developer will pay for the water main, which needs full council approval.
JSWD Wisconsin Venture I LLC plans to build the hotel on a 37,395-square-foot vacant parcel at 550 N. Van Buren St., according to documents filed with the city.
That site is between the U.S. Bank Center's Galleria and that office tower's parking structure north of E. Clybourn St. The hotel would connect to the Galleria level.
Plans for the $50 million project were first disclosed in 2014. It is to be completed by June 2017.
Westin is a higher-end brand owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. Other Starwood brands include Aloft, Sheraton and Four Points by Sheraton.
JSWD Wisconsin's manager is Edward Carow, according to the city documents.
Carow and Mark Flaherty own Jackson Street Management LLC, which operates the 160-room Aloft Hotel, 1230 N. Old World 3rd St., and the 205-room Marriott Hotel, 323 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Carow and Flaherty also are converting a six-story historic office building at 744 N. 4th St. into a 150-room SpringHill Suites hotel. That $30 million project is to be completed in April.
Reported by: JSOnline.com
