The Miami Beach Convention Center is finally getting its headquarter hotel after county commissioners decided last week to toss another $75 million into the $500 million-plus project, ending years of delays caused by Covid and planning and permitting issues.
Coming as early as 2027 will be the 800-room Grand Hyatt Miami Beach Convention Center Hotel, which is projected to begin construction this fall and continue for 28 months. The new hotel will be located at 17th Street and Convention Center Drive in Miami Beach, near landmark attractions like the New World Center concert hall, The Bass Museum of Art and the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. In addition, the hotel will mere blocks away from the beach as well as the popular restaurants and shops of Lincoln Road, one of Miami Beach’s hottest destinations.
The Grand Hyatt Miami Beach will include:
- 800 rooms (including 52 suites)
- 90,000 sf of indoor meeting/conference space, plus 10,000 sf outdoors
- Five food and beverage outlets, including a signature restaurant that is already leased
- A climate-controlled pedestrian sky bridge connected to MBCC
- A resort-style pool deck and a gym
- A Grand Hyatt Club Lounge
- Retail shopping at street level
- 320 parking spaces
If the hotel does take 28 months to build and stays on its projected construction timeline, it would begin accepting guests just seven decades shy of the convention center’s original grand opening in 1958.
“You Do Not Want to be Hiking Across Town”
A LEED Silver-certified green building, the Miami Beach Convention Center includes a grand ballroom, 500,000 sf of flexible exhibition halls, four junior ballrooms, 84 breakout rooms and outdoor terraces and parks. The convention center’s recent $640 million renovation and reimagination made the issue of a headquarter hotel even more urgent, as the city is currently not equipped to host the larger conventions interested in coming to the newly revamped venue.
As one commissioner put it in a June meeting on the subject, “I know that we have a plethora of hotels in the city, and that is very appealing to the folks who had the luxury of not being attached to the convention center, but I will tell you, having worked a million different trade shows, when you’re … putting up the booth or bringing the samples in or making sure that you make those meetings at 7 a.m. before the show opens, you do not want to be hiking across town. You want to be able to take the elevator downstairs, cross a courtyard and go to the convention center. The faster we get this done, the better off we collectively will be as a city.”
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