Groundbreaking ceremony happened last week for the new 3-story Fairfield Inn at
503 E Buttles Street, downtown Midland, near the Dow Diamond and Dow East End Building.
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Construction starts on Fairfield Inn
Kate Carlson | Midland Daily News
June 01, 2018
Construction of a 77-room Fairfield Inn & Suites hotel started in the last couple weeks in downtown Midland and is expected to be complete mid-April. The 14,066-square-foot hotel site plan from Wolgast Design Group on behalf of Davis Lodging, VII, LLC was approved by the Midland City Council in November. The hotel will be located on what used to be the Dirk Waltz auto dealership at 506 East Buttles St...
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I couldn't find any renderings, but if you do an image search of Fairfield Inn & Suites, you get a good sense of their more contemporary / current buildings, which this will likely mirror. The building will front E Ellsworth St, with parking behind.
Site Plan
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NBC25 News | Courtesy Midland Planning Commission
Ellsworth place, a 3-story, mixed-use development, and 1st State Bank, a 2-story branch bank building, are also both going up about 3 blocks away. I'm trying to find progress photos of both. It's neat to see this stretch along Buttles and Ellsworth slowly densify. Here's a rendering of Ellsworth Place - at 201, 205 and 211 E. Ellsworth St. - offices and garages on first floor, eight condo apartments above.
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Midland Daily News