Construction is expected to resume on the Courtyard by Marriott in St Paul, Minnesota. The construction site had previously been set ablaze causing all work to come to a halt after it was levelled. The US$30 million hotel project will include 120 rooms and will be built on a 2.4-acre city-owned lot sold to Kaeding for US$5 million in August 2019. The hotel is part of the Seven Corners Gateway development, which is bounded by Kellogg Boulevard, West Seventh, Smith Avenue, and Fifth Street, and comprises 144 market-rate apartments that debuted on time last summer. Kaeding is building both the hotel and the housing development.
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The retail area in the two buildings will total 14,000 square feet. Purpose Driven Restaurants co-founder Brian Ingram intends to create the Apostle Supper Club within the apartment complex. When a suspected fire burned part of the building site in August 2020, approximately six or seven months before the planned completion date, work on the five-story hotel came to a standstill. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives eventually determined that the fire was started on purpose. There has been no one charged with the crime. The planned launch date was set for March 2021.
Commentary on the Courtyard by Marriott, St Paul
“There is more to be done in this matter, and we feel the public can help.” We ask anyone with information about this event to contact us. “We primarily (want to) discover images or video of anyone in or near the location during the event to be extremely useful,” said ATF Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jeff Reed of the St. Paul Field Division. “It was a long journey with the epidemic and insurance.” These two elements took up more time and money. We’re relieved to be back on track. In an interview, Brody Nordland, a partner in the Kaeding Development Group, said, “We’re currently reviewing some thoughts of what we’re going to do with the hotel retail area.”
