Dupont Plaza Hotel

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Dupont Plaza Hotel shortly after opening

The DuPont Plaza (also Dupont Plaza Center) was a hotel in Downtown Miami . It was built in 1957 and demolished in 2004. It was the first hotel to be built after the Miami tourism boom in 1926.

history

After the area of ​​the former Royal Palm Hotel had remained undeveloped for almost 25 years and was mainly used as a parking lot (Dupont Plaza), the DuPont Trust (as the successor to the Florida East Coast Railway) began building a hotel on the grounds of the former park of the Royal Palm Hotel.

Dupont Plaza Hotel 2002

The building was the first large hotel to be built in Miami after the tourist boom ended in 1926. In addition to the actual hotel (referred to as the Dupont Tarleton Hotel when it opened), the property also comprised a 14-story office complex (completed by the mid-1960s), a conference center and a 9,300 m² exhibition space for the Architects International Bureau of Building Products.

The hotel was a popular tourist destination especially in the 1960s. At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, interest in the hotel revived again briefly, especially among tourists from South America and the Caribbean. After that, the hotel ran into financial difficulties due to falling demand. In February 2000 the hotel was renamed "Ramada at DuPont Plaza Center".

In August 2001 the hotel was bought by Lionstone Hotels and Resorts. The original plan for a $ 80 million renovation was soon abandoned, and the hotel was demolished from April 2004 to January 2005. Today, the Epic Residences & Hotel is located on the site of the hotel.

location

The hotel was right at the mouth of the Miami River in Biscayne Bay . The Brickell Avenue Bridge crossed the river next to the building complex .

Building

The building is a twelve-story concrete structure. Facing the Miami River, the hotel had a two-story low-rise building for conference rooms and dining rooms. The hotel had 297 rooms, an outdoor pool and a sun terrace.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ground was broken in downtown Miami ... In: Lubbock Evening Journal. June 1, 1956, accessed January 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Sun Sentinel February 7, 2000: Hospitality & Tourism Notes

Coordinates: 25 ° 46 ′ 14.4 "  N , 80 ° 11 ′ 19.8"  W.