ELKHART, Ind. (AP) – A northern Indiana hotel that closed in the 1970s is set to check in its first guests in half a century after years of renovation worth $ 23 million.
The nearly hundred-year-old Hotel Elkhart is due to reopen on Tuesday as part of the Hilton Tapestry Collection of hotels. The newly renovated nine-story building offers 93 guest rooms, two restaurants, a ballroom, meeting rooms and a rooftop bar.
The hotel was built in 1923 but closed as a hotel in the early 1970s, The Elkhart Truth reported.
The $ 23 million renovation began in the city about five miles east of South Bend in 2018, but work was delayed for more than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic caused additional delays.
The renovation was led by Cressy Commercial Real Estate and Mno-Bmadsen, the non-gaming investment arm of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. The project was also supported by government agencies, including the city of Elkhart.
Julio Martinez, CEO of Mno-Bmadsen, said the renovation was “a work of love”.
“We are incredibly honored to be a partner in this investment and we are excited to have this property brought back to life in the ancestral land of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians,” Martinez said in a press release.
