A $3,000,000 Hotel

Ninety days from now, or thereabout, actual work on a great new hotel for Akron will be under way. Two hundred or more substantial business men and business organizations of the city have subscribed to the project. After a number of lost efforts in this direction, over the past several years, the consummation of the present project is assured, and a fireproof, steel and concrete structure 17 stories in height and costing $1,800,000, will rise at Main and State streets. This is the site of the old (present) Y. M. C. A. building.

The hotel will occupy the Y. M. C. A. and adjoining property having a Main street frontage of 118 feet and extending to a depth of 123 feet. The real estate is costing the company about $875,000. To furnish the hotel will cost $500,000, putting the cost of the hotel complete at approximately $3,200,000.

Theodore DeWitt, long vice president and general manager of the Hollenden, in Cleveland, will have the management of the new hotel and is himself a large subscriber to the undertaking. The HolIenden ranks as on-of the best managed hotels in America. Mr. DeWitt himself rated as one of America's outstanding hotel executives.

Akron's new hotel will completely meet every modern requirement. Its appointments will in every way compare favorably with the best of the great cities. There will be from 500 to 600 guest rooms.

Early work on actual construction is permitted by the surrender of the Y. M. C. A. building November 1st. Under the original sale contract the structure does not have to be given over until an. 1, but as temporary quarters must be used in any event, pending the completion of the new Y. M., the hotel company is allowed to gain November and December of this year, and the opening of the new hotel will be an event of the Thanksgiving month of 1930.

"A $3,000,000 Hotel." Akron Topics August. 1929: 4. Akron-Summit County Library:
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