[DMRyan]

A look at some of the downtown hotels being worked on our proposed currently.

The Hotel Fort Des Moines has been sitting empty for the past few years awaiting historic tax credits, which it has recently received. This $43 million restoration will make this one of the nicest hotels in town and it will be brought under the Hilton Curio Collection of boutique hotels.














The Midland Building is a $40 million proposed restoration by the Aparium Group, which has also done other great signature boutique hotels around the Midwest.







A new Fairfield Inn will be built near the convention center and will be putting an addition onto a rather mundane 1970's office building that will be converted.





The Savery Hotel by Renaissance is nearly finished with a $30 million renovation that will keep the hotel relevant with others that are going a little higher end and has uncovered and restored some great art deco canopies that were covered with more modern additions.







And the Hilton Downtown Des Moines convention hotel is officially open for business.










There are at least 3 other hotels looking to build new downtown, but some are waiting on the sidelines to see how the market fares after some of the sizeable projects shown above get stabilized.