JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Baptist Health is planning to add a 15-story, nearly $110 million hotel to its campus on the Downtown Southbank, a representative told a Jacksonville City Council committee on Monday.
According to News4JAX partners at the Jacksonville Daily Record, land-use and governmental affairs attorney Steve Diebenow of Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow, who is representing Baptist, said the 226-room hotel is planned at Palm Avenue and Gary Street.
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The 1.82-acre site at 1051 Palm Ave. is now a parking lot.
In a presentation to the Special Committee on the Future of Downtown, he said Baptist Health would own the hotel and North Carolina-based Concord Hospitality Enterprises would operate it.
A presentation slide listed the development cost of the hotel at $109.7 million. Plans include a 5,000-square-foot rooftop restaurant and terrace open to the public, plus 130 parking spaces.
Diebenow said rooms would be offered to families of patients receiving care in the Baptist Health campus, but the hotel would be marketed to anyone wanting to stay downtown.