In downtown Tuscaloosa, a brand new Embassy Suites hotel, which cost $31 million to build, recently opened for business.
Situated at the corner of Greensboro and University downtown, the new hotel provides a luxury destination for visitors to the city for various events, the most important of which are home football games. But according to Tuscaloosa’s Tide 99.1 FM, the Embassy Suites is already completely booked for all seven home football game weekends for the upcoming 2015 season.
The eight story, 151-suite Embassy Suites is the first of its kind in Tuscaloosa, and is loaded with amenities, like made-to-order breakfast, two-room suites with separate living areas, WiFi, 42-inch high definition TVs, a mini-fridge and a coffee maker. It will also have a restaurant called Side by Side that is run by James Beard Award-winning chef Chris Hastings, who is renowned for his Birmingham restaurant Hot and Hot Fish Club.
“The opening of Embassy Suites Tuscaloosa Downtown, AL is a significant milestone in the city’s history and will spring-board downtown Tuscaloosa into greater heights,” said C. Kemmons Wilson Jr., president, Tuscaloosa Hotel Partners, LLC. “We look forward to providing visitors with a new opportunity to visit downtown Tuscaloosa.”
Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox has estimated that each home football game weekend brings in around $17 million of revenue for the city, and the new Embassy Suites is another part of that revenue. But if you haven’t booked a room already during a football weekend this fall, you’ll just have to wait ’til next year.
