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Kimpton Kia Center

Kimpton Hotel to Rise Near Kia Center

Machete Group and JMA Ventures will bring a Kimpton hotel to the Westcourt mixed-use project in downtown Orlando. The hotel will rise near the Kia Center, home of the Orlando Magic.

The hotel will have 261 rooms spread over 11 stories, 16,000-plus square feet of meeting space, a full-service restaurant, lobby bar, cafe, pool, pool bar and pool lounge. The hotel pool will be on level three, sitting on top of the lobby and overlooking Church Street.

The Orlando Business Journal reports The Westcourt project has been in the making since 2011, when the city of Orlando approved a feasibility study for a sports and entertainment district. An entity associated with the Orlando Magic purchased most of the project’s land in 2013, and the property’s first demolition was in 2016. The project now stands at 8.5 acres. The price tag for the 900,000-square-foot phase one is expected to top $500 million. 

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