Nov. 20–PFLUGERVILLE — Three new hotels are expected to follow the Hawaiian Falls water park to Pflugerville — and one, a $17 million Marriott Courtyard with a restaurant and meeting space, may open its doors by Christmas 2014, a development official said.
The total cost of the other two hotels, a Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites and a Best Western Plus, will be several million dollars each, said Floyd Akers, executive director of the Pflugerville Community Development Corporation.
The corporation, which is the city’s economic development arm, is still negotiating deals with the hotels, all of which would be located alongside offices at the 130 Commerce Center off the tollway, Akers said. To keep the deals under wraps, the corporation codenamed two of the developments “Project Morpheus” and “Project Vinyl.”
Drawn in part by the opening of Hawaiian Falls, the hotels will be Pflugerville’s first — the hotels near the city along Interstate 35 are all within the city limits of Austin, Akers said.
Combined, the three hotels would have at least 335 rooms and employ at least 100 people, Akers said. The hotels would generate about $171,000 in property taxes annually, and the city would also get tax revenues of 8.5 percent on each room stay. Rooms will go for an average of $100 a night, Akers said.
The development corporation plans to offer the hotels “minor incentives,” Akers said, and the city may offer additional ones.
Details on the hotels’ investors and operators will not be released until the deals are finalized. The City Council may complete the Marriott Courtyard agreement at its Dec. 10 meeting, Akers said.
