Extended-stay hotel may be built next to Tamarac golf course
A developer is proposing a five-story hotel in Tamarac’s upscale Woodmont neighborhood, seeing an opportunity to build after another hotel was allowed to open nearby.
The proposal calls for a 127-room Home2 Suites by Hilton — an extended-stay hotel chain — adjacent to the Woodmont Country Club at 7801 NW 80 Ave., said developer Justin Schmidt.
If approved, it would be built less than a two-mile drive from Fairfield Inn by Marriott, which is already under construction on Northwest 88th Avenue, next to the city-owned Colony West golf course.
The City Commission signed a deal in 2015 to sell a nearly 3-acre piece of land next to the Colony West golf course to build the hotel, and in June 2016 amended the code.
The city had rebuffed prior attempts to build a hotel in Woodmont, but Schmidt argued the city opened the door for it when it allowed the Fairfield Inn to be built.
The city “revamped its code to allow hotels as an [ancillary] use to country clubs when they decided to develop a hotel on their property … after they told us they would never allow us to build one,” Schmidt said. “They made the process easier for themselves,” making it easier for other country club owners, too, he said.
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