Hotel to get new look, name
New operator hopes to create convention, wedding destination
Waukesha’s Country Springs Hotel will undergo extensive renovations to its guest rooms, meeting space and other areas, and will be renamed, the hotel’s new operator announced Wednesday.
The 187-room hotel, which includes a water park, will be known as The Ingleside Hotel when the project is completed in spring 2018, according to a statement from Burwell Enterprises Inc., the hotel’s Bloomington, Minn.-based operator.
The hotel at 2810 Golf Road will remain open during the renovations. Work on that $10 million project will start within a few weeks.
The project will include new furnishings and fixtures in the guest rooms, renovated ballrooms and meeting space, a new lobby coffee shop, other
renovated food and beverage outlets, and an improved courtyard, according to Burwell.
The project is designed to build on the hotel’s assets, including its location overlooking I-94 and 40,000 square feet of meeting space, said Stephen Zanoni, chief operating officer of SilverTree Hospitality, a division of Burwell Enterprises.
“Our goal is to build on that uniqueness and create a convention, wedding and leisure destination for the entire upper Midwest,” Zanoni said in a statement.
The new hotel name takes the emphasis away from Country Springs’ water park. That water park was added in 2005, and the property’s name was changed from the Country Inn Hotel.
Chicago-based hotel design firm The Gettys Group is overseeing the new design and brand.
A Burwell affiliate, Waukesha Hospitality LLC, bought the hotel in February for $14.5 million. Burwell also owns The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club.