SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake County’s tourist economy is rebounding strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic, and those staying in its downtown area will soon have new stay options when visiting the region. It turns out.
However, customers will have to wait a little longer.
Marriott Bonvoy’s luxury hotel brand, Autograph Collection, is now named after Asher Adams, the two cartographers who first put railroad lines on the map, John R. Asher and George H. Adams. The company is planning to open a new store next. week.
It was originally scheduled to open on Thursday, but there was a last-minute delay, a company spokesperson said. The restaurant will open on November 7th and rooms will be available from November 14th.
The 225-room hotel, located in the historic Union Pacific Depot, will be the brand’s first in Salt Lake City and third in Utah, after Park City and St. George.
The project renovated the 116-year-old station and created 13 suites. Most guestrooms are located in an eight-story guestroom tower expansion built behind the depot at the north end of Gateway.
Amenities include Rouser, a “charcoal-inspired” New American restaurant, as well as “upscale whiskey-forward” Bar No. 119, a cocktail bar and an artisanal coffee bar. The project also will include a fitness center and five meeting/event spaces, which hotel officials call “a blend of historic preservation and modern luxury.”
“This long-awaited hotel is a stunning reintroduction of the popular Union Pacific Depot building, with an elevated dining concept and best-in-class service,” Niels Weisters, the hotel’s general manager, said in a statement. We will provide the following.” “Intentional adaptive reuse projects seamlessly blend original elements with modern amenities.”
New uses for depots
The project is the latest use for a depot completed in 1909 for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad and Oregon Short Line lines, according to a report compiled by state historians in the 1970s. Western architect Daniel J. Patterson, who designed many of Southern Pacific’s other stations at the time, including historic buildings still standing in Seattle and San Antonio, was hired to design the building.
Although ownership changed hands many times over the years, it remained a railroad station until Amtrak withdrew in 1986. The building was then used for offices, training space, and other unique uses. It and the adjacent Devereaux House were used as filming locations for the famous snowy owl philanthropy scene in the 1994 comedy Dumb & Dumber.
The Depot, a popular concert venue at the north end of the building, opened in 2006. The hotel’s plans are not affected and it remains open.
Plans to turn the building into a hotel emerged in 2018, when The Gateway’s owner, Vestar, announced a partnership with luxury hotel developer Athenee Group. Construction began in 2022.
Add hotel options
Salt Lake County Tourism and Utah ski industry officials say the hotel could open in time for the 2024-25 ski season, potentially bringing more snow seekers to downtown Salt Lake City. He said he was happy. Kaitlin Eskelson, president and CEO of Visit Salt Lake, told KSL.com that she believes the hotel will not only be an “anchor” for the gateway, but will also fill a significant need for hotel rooms. Ta.
Despite rising costs, the county’s largest increase in hotel rooms over the past five years, and a surge in short-term rental properties, occupancy rates will remain modest in 2023, according to data from the University of Utah’s Kem G. Garder Institute for Policy Studies. It rose to 69%. Last year had the highest occupancy rate in the county since the pandemic, but it was only 0.6% compared to the 2019 average.
Eskelson said some of the popular choices are downtown rooms, such as the Hyatt Regency, which opens in 2022.
“The demand is certainly there,” she says. “This will complement all the existing inventory we have because we can definitely fill the room.”
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