The city is reviewing civil engineering plans submitted Oct. 7 for a proposed Homewood Suites by Hilton on almost 2.6 acres at 1771 Airport Road near Jacksonville International Airport.
BPR Properties of High Point, North Carolina, is listed as the owner and developer of the proposed four-story, 131-room, almost 87,000-square-foot hotel at northeast Airport Road and International Airport Boulevard.
Elevate of Atlanta is the architect.
PDG Jacksonville LLC, also of High Point, paid $1.43 million for the vacant site in April 2022. It bought an adjacent 0.19-acre strip of land at the rear of the property from JEA for $56,000 in January 2024.
The St. Johns River Water Management District received an environmental resource permit application Sept. 11 for the project.
Ingenium Enterprises Inc., a Tampa-based planning and engineering company, is the project consultant. Ingenium prepared the project plans.
The Water Management District applicant is Birju Patel, president of BPR.
The BPR website shows the Homewood Suites by Hilton Jacksonville as under development. It is one of 27 properties listed as open, under construction or in development.
In April, BPR announced that LBA Hospitality will manage its 16 open properties.
BPR says it was founded in 1983 and has acquired and developed more than 100 hotels.
BPR has been active in the hotel market near JIA. In 2022, the Daily Record reported it sold the Home2 Suites by Hilton Jacksonville Airport for $11.5 million. In 2018, a subsidiary of BPR sold the Hyatt Place Jacksonville Airport for $15.4 million.
According to the Hilton website, there are four Homewood Suites in Northeast Florida with three in Jacksonville and one in St. Augustine. Amenities include in-room kitchens, free hot breakfast and pet-friendly rooms.