BOULDER, CO- Denver-based Urban Design Group, an architecture firm that is building hotels in Walt Disney World and Disneyland, announced yesterday that it is designing the new luxury hotel and underground parking garage at ninth Street and Canyon Blvd.
The 2.7 acres is being developed by Boulder-based St. Julien Partners who, according to HOTELBUSINESS. sources, is a group of wealthy local business people with no hotel development experience.
Construction of the $25-million project, including the 200-room St. Julien Hotel and 657-space underground parking garage, is expected to begin early 2001, with completion scheduled for August 2002. The four-star hotel will include a 10,000-square-foot conference center, 175-seat restaurant and indoor pool. No building permits have been filed yet, according to Liz Hanson, a planner with Boulder s planning department. –Shannon McMullen (8/22/00)