Missouri-based developer Drury Southwest has brought a new proposal for a 205-room hotel on the downtown site formerly home to a Madison College campus, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
The news comes seven years after Madison originally approved plans for a 310-room Drury Plaza Hotel between North Carroll Street and Wisconsin Avenue, which was set to open in early 2021.
While demolition began in 2019, work at the site was halted during the COVID-19 pandemic and never resumed.
The new project, an eight-story building, will be a separate structure from the six-story Madison College building, parts of which date back to the 1920s. Drury plans to recruit another developer to repurpose it, likely for housing.
The new hotel would feature a bar and restaurant, a meeting room, a fitness area and a pool. There would be 212 parking spaces as well.
The project must receive city approval before construction can commence. The developer plans to start building the hotel next year and open it in the first half of 2028.
