Boulder City Councilmembers opted not to call up a plan on Nov. 21 to add several hotel suites and renovate a Tebo property on the corner of Spruce and 11th Street, clearing the way for the project to move forward.
The plan proposes turning professional offices into a bar/tavern and creating four hotel suites on the second and third floors. It would also renovate a historic carriage house into a hotel suite and add two two-story hotel suites totaling 2,023 square feet. The plan will proceed in conjunction with a second Tebo Properties plan to convert the adjacent office building at 1111 Spruce into “Hotel Eleven11,” a 37-room boutique hotel, by 2027. The two hotel operations will be run together.
The office building includes an 1895-era structure and a carriage house built by Valentine Butsch, who at different points served Boulder as a deputy assessor, police magistrate, justice of the peace, postmaster, and owner and editor of the Daily Camera. The three new hotel suites are intended to reflect the original architecture.
The Planning Board previously voted 5-0 to approve the application with conditions as recommended by staff. The project received letters of support from state Sen. Judy Amabile; Bettina Swigger, CEO of the Downtown Boulder Partnership; and Jay Elowsky, owner of Pasta Jay’s.
Other neighbors expressed concern that the tavern could be open until 2 a.m. The application was revised to limit tavern hours to 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week.
This article left me a bit speechless. Residents of 11th and Spruce, would love to know your perspective.
that’s still very much ‘downtown’. if you look in maps, you’ll see the building. its been an office building for years, perfect for rezoning. we need more hotels, anyway, and 37 rooms is SMALL.
Can you add links to planning Board approval so that we can see the project?
Sure, here are the applicant’s plans: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26313604-attachment-b-applicants-proposed-plans/