Comment on Hyatt House hotel planned for Broad Street

An Augusta-based investment group on Wednesday announced Wednesday it will build a Hyatt House hotel on the 1200 block of Broad Street — the second major downtown hotel announcement this week and Broad Street’s first new business-class hotel in decades. Construction on the five-story, limited-service hotel — which will have its own 140-space parking deck — could start as soon as December, said John Engler of DTJR LLC, a partnership between he and his mother Elizabeth Engler. read more