A boutique hotel is coming to downtown Windsor.
Speaking on AM800's The Morning Drive, mayor Drew Dilkens says the Paul Martin Building will become a boutique hotel and it will be operated by Rob Myers, the owner of Chatham's Retro Suites and RM Auto Restoration.
"For those who have been to Chatham and seen Retro Suites, it's Rob Myers the same owner of that hotel bringing a concept here to the city of Windsor, working with some local partners like Dino Maggio that people know in the community and it's going to see the Paul Martin Building completely restored and bring some more life to that property," says Dilkens. "It's going to be quite amazing."
Paul Martin Building at 185 Ouellette Ave. February 8, 2017. (Photo by Teresinha Medeiros)
Dilkens says more details will be released Thursday morning at a media conference but says the hotel will occupy the whole building.
"He's talking between 80 and 100 different suites inside the building and a restaurant and maybe some convention space and so there's a lot of work to do in that building to convert it but it is a marvellous building," says Dilkens. "It's one that people will remember as the old post office downtown."
He says the city and Windsor Public Library will now look at relocating the temporary central branch, which has called the Paul Martin Building home for the last few years.
"It's not like we have to figure this out in the next six months or eight months, the transfer and the work that we're doing with Rob Myers we have four to five years to move the library out of there," he says. "So he can work around, he can deal with the front and the other parts of the Paul Martin Building because it is a big building inside there. There is a lot of work that has to happen."
The building is located on Ouellette Avenue between Chatham and Pitt.