Plans are moving forward for a new 200 to 250-room Hyatt Place hotel, surrounded by water on a peninsula in Sugar Land’s mixed-use Lake Pointe project.
Officials for Lake Pointe developers Planned Community Development acknowledged in late 2007 that they’d been talking to several parties interested in a building a hotel on the property.
Next week, the Sugar Land Planning & Zoning Commission will consider a conditional use permit that would allow the hotel to be built in a business office district at Lake Pointe.
A letter submitted to Sugar Land Assistant City Planner Doug Schomburg by PCD President Les Newton says the Hyatt Place hotel likely would include 215 rooms, although Newton’s company seeks a permit allowing up to 250.
Information provided to Planning & Zoning commissioners shows the proposed hotel also would include 225 parking spaces, a meeting room of at least 4,000 square feet, and a business center. The hotel site also would include a restaurant, swimming pool and fitness center.
The hotel would be owned by a partnership including Hyatt and Woodbine Development Corp. of Dallas, Newton’s letter states.
Since Newton sent his letter, Sugar Land Planning Department staff has studied plans for the hotel, and requested several changes that now are being negotiated with PCD, Hyatt/Woodbine and the city staff.
According to material provided in advance of a Sept. 9 Planning & Zoning Commission meeting, those changes include removing from consideration a site plan that would have centered the hotel on the peninsula property. Still under discussion is the issue of how many parking spaces to allow between the hotel and a lake on the site.
