Downtown’s Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront renovations will top $8 million.
Owners applied Wednesday for a building permit for the project, announced March 4 as a renovation to all of the 963 guest rooms and corridors of the 19-story building. It shows a job cost of $8.1 million.
Furnishings and other interior refurbishing are expected to boost that investment.
Additional renovation upgrades will include the hotel’s rooftop fitness center and Regency Club lounge.
The Hyatt, at 225 Coastline Drive E., says it is the largest convention hotel between Atlanta and Orlando, offering 110,000 square feet of flexible meeting space, including a 28,000-square-foot grand ballroom.
Renovations will add six meeting rooms on the fourth level of the hotel’s Terrace Building.
The permit application shows that renovations include 471,000 square feet from the fourth through 19th floors. Property records show the main hotel structure, developed in 2001, is more than 600,000 square feet.
The project is expected begin April 7 and be completed in phases by the first week of October in time for the Florida-Georgia football game. The work will be scheduled to allow the hotel to accommodate as many guests as it can during the summer.
The renovation will upgrade one of the city’s landmark hotels.
It was developed in 2001 as an Adam’s Mark hotel and was considered a key factor in the city’s successful bid to host Super Bowl XXXIX in February 2005.
It was converted into a Hyatt in 2005 and renovated.
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