Cedar Falls To Consider Plans For Six-Story Hotel

CEDAR FALLS, IA — A Coralville-based hotel owner has submitted plans to the city for a six-story hotel in a prominent downtown area. City review of the proposed Hampton Inn could happen next month.

The project would add approximately 120 hotel rooms downtown at West First and Main streets on a 2.5-acre site that includes the former Chamber of Commerce building and land previously occupied by the Broom Factory Restaurant, which already was razed, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported.

Western Home Communities owns the property and its CEO, Kris Hansen, told the Courier it is being sold to Hawkeye Hotels for development. Once plans are approved by the city, work will be coordinated with downtown flood control levee improvements.

Ravi Patel, president of Hawkeye Hotels, which also operates the Hampton Inn in downtown Des Moines, told the Courier they sought the Cedar Falls location because it was at the hub of dining, retail and event traffic.

“We really wanted to find a top-tier site in downtown Cedar Falls," he told the Courier. "We patiently waited until we found the right opportunity in downtown.”

Patel would like to see the hotel open by the summer of 2019.

>>Read the full story in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

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