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Embassy Suites by Hilton construction to begin in downtown Grand Rapids

Suburban Inns

After a series of delays a new hotel is coming to Grand Rapids’ North Monroe District. Construction of a seven-story Embassy Suites by Hilton hotel will begin Tuesday with the demolition of a building at the corner of Bond Avenue and Newberry in downtown Grand Rapids.

West Michigan-based developer and operator, Suburban Inns, explains when the hotel is finished at 710 Monroe Avenue NW, it will be the first upscale all-suites hotel located downtown.

It will feature 246 suites, many with balcony views of the Grand River or the city skyline. The new Embassy Suites will feature an indoor pool that will also overlook the river, a sports bar and grill, spas, banquet facility and meeting rooms.

After several months spent working on the underground substructure, construction can move forward. The hotel is scheduled to open during the summer of 2019.

Patrick Center, WGVU News.

Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.