By Eric Curl
Nov. 13, 2024 update – On Wednesday, the Historic District Board of Review unanimously approved design details for the rehabilitation and new construction project at 401 East Bay St.
About eight years after a developer announced a plan to build a boutique hotel at the location, a new developer and pending property owner has stepped in to build a hotel on the abandoned project site, as previously reported.
Roswell-based DSM Real Estate Partners’ plan for 401-409 East Bay St. includes the renovation with additions of two buildings and construction of one new building for a 65-room hotel, a restaurant and meeting space
The project’s height and mass was approved by the review board on Sept. 11.
The historic building on the site that will be preserved was built in 1898 and originally housed a wholesale grocery store before housing the now-closed Best Laundry by 1916, according to Ethos Prervation’s report on the project site.
Prior to the board’s approval, Ellie Isaacs, the Historic Savannah Foundation’s director of Preservation & Historic Properties, joined the board in voicing the nonprofit’s support for the project she would be a welcome addition to downtown.
Find the board’s full agenda and more upcoming meetings at Meeting Agendas – Savannah Agenda.
Read Savannah Agenda’s latest newsletter at Savannah Agenda – Nonprofit restores long vacant, fire damaged Cuyler Brownville home, constructs another
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