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Soft Opening Held For New Airport Hyatt; Joint Project With Poarch Creeks
April 11, 2013
A soft opening was held Wednesday for a new Hyatt Place Hotel at the Pensacola International Airport, a partnership between the Poarch Creek Indians of Atmore and Innisfree Hotels.
Construction on the $24 million development started back in January 2012. The 127-room hotel is projected to generate over $420,000 annually in non-airline revenue for the airport through lease fees, and $100,000 in local option sales taxes for the City of Pensacola. It will also create over $4 million in payroll revenues through the addition of about 235 new jobs to the local economy.
The land for the development is being leased from the City of Pensacola.
Innisfree currently owns and operates six other full service hotels and resorts in the Gulf Coast region of Florida and Alabama as well as four focused service properties in the southeast United States. In addition to the Windcreek Casino in Atmore, the Poarch Creek Indians operate several other properties, including the Pensacola Dog Track and Poker Room.
Pictured: A soft opening was held Wednesday for a new Hyatt Place Hotel at the Pensacola International Airport. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.
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2 Responses to “Soft Opening Held For New Airport Hyatt; Joint Project With Poarch Creeks”
Sounds like a win for everyone concerned. Pensacola can use that kind of influx of new revenue. The surrounding areas will also benefit from it as well.
It’s a beautiful hotel and I hope to be utilizing the services there in the future. It’s so nice to see the “fruits” of the labor of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. I think their ancestors would be very proud of their accomplishments and the local citizens would be very proud of the economy boost .