A Texas developer has obtained the Resort Elegante Conference & Party Heart for $25 million as it looks to carry on with strategies to flip Colorado Springs’ second-major resort into almost 500 flats targeted at entry-degree employees.
The 496-room lodge at 2886 S. Circle Drive is predicted to keep on being open up through the 1-year conversion method, but the hotel’s restaurant has shut and assembly amenities will be phased out. Some of the rooms ended up currently rented underneath the prior operator on a weekly or regular foundation and will be accessible unfurnished beginning at $969 a thirty day period, including all utilities.
A restricted liability business established by Austin-based mostly SHIR Money bought the intricate from a restricted legal responsibility organization managed by Odessa, Texas, trader John Bushman in a transaction brokered by Colorado Springs commercial genuine estate agent Bryan Rodriguez. SHIR has renamed the property Alta Hotel for the lodging component of the property until finally it closes and Alta Living for the portion that will be leased as apartments, which will have an ordinary dimensions of 365 sq. toes.


“I dwell in Austin and it has grow to be the darling of the genuine estate earth suitable now simply because folks have moved listed here for the way of living and organizations have adopted, bringing new employment,” Elan Gordon, a SHIR principal, stated Monday. “I see a little something comparable occurring in Colorado Springs, but on a lesser scale.
“The two areas have similar growth patterns and cost-effective housing concerns, and by converting resort rooms to apartments it would not acquire two or 3 decades to develop new (apartments). We can provide substantially-required attainable housing promptly,” Gordon claimed. “Our tactic is to be the least expensive-expense selection in the center of the action (near the middle of the city).”
The hotel has been converted from full-company to constrained-assistance lodging with rooms available for $89-$175 a evening. Alta Hotel’s Sweet Tooth Cafe remains open up along with its pools, children’s play area, laundry amenities, enterprise and health and fitness facilities as properly as outside athletics