The Marriott AC Hotel downtown finally has a sign; is there an opening date, too?
There’s now a sign on the Marriott AC Hotel downtown, and developer Sudha Tokala said there’s finally a realistic estimated opening for the business, too.
About this time last year, Tokala said she expected the 11-story hotel to open in spring 2024, which was delayed from a planned 2023 opening.
Now there’s only the lobby to finish, so she said the hotel should open by late this year.
The delays are the same ones Tokala listed previously: chiefly, the elevators.
She said they’d been on back order and that delayed the entire project. Tokala said the elevators had to be custom made since they were going into existing shafts.
The hotel is opening at the former Broadway
Plaza building at 105 S. Broadway next to the Ambassador Hotel Wichita, Autograph Collection.
Tokala first announced the Marriott in 2018 when she announced that she was bringing an osteopathy school downtown followed by a culinary school and food hall, the hotel and student housing.
The nonprofit Kansas Health Science Center and its Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine opened in 2022 at the former Finney State Office Building, which is two joined buildings at 130 S. Market and 230 E. William.
WSU Tech’s National Institute for Culinary and Hospitality Education, or NICHE, opened last year at the former Henry’s building at 124 S. Broadway.
Student housing was supposed to open in 2024 at Sutton Place at 209 E. William St., but Tokala said it’s delayed, too, and will open in 2025.
The new Marriott, which has hired a general manager, hasn’t started accepting reservations yet. Tokala said Marriott will determine when that will happen after its opening protocols are complete.