US: Chicago’s infamous Purple Hotel site is to become a mixed use development with retail space and two extended stay hotels.
Chicago’s Tucker Development bought the site in 2019 and the 7,400 sqm development will include two hotels and retail space with an Amazon Fresh shop.
The US$175 million project will have a Residence Inn by Marriott and a Springhill Suites, offering 299 apartments between them. The hotels are due to open next year.
The site in Lincolnwood, Chicago used to be home to the infamous Purple hotel, which was once an up-scale hotel hosting live music and entertainers such as Barry Manilow. However over the years it attracted drug-fuelled party-goers and claims of swingers parties, with police called out frequently. In the 1980s a Chicago mobster was murdered in the hotel’s car park. It was eventually shut down in 2007 and demolished in 2013.
The new development will be known as District 1860 and has been described by Tucker Development as “A live, dine, shop hub for the Lincolnwood community”.
Residence Inn by Marriott last year launched in Turkey and opened its first property in Columbia.
