New hotel planned for SRQ airport property

The city is reviewing plans for a new hotel at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

Making its first appearance before the Sarasota Development Review Committee on Nov. 19 is Kompose Hotel, a 60-room, four-story hotel on a 2.25-acre vacant lot between University Parkway and Rental Car Road. Accessory uses will include a business center, fitness center, and a 100-seat restaurant open to the public.

The Kompose Hotel brand is owned by Kapstones, a privately held Sarasota-based real estate development and hospitality company. 

A resubmittal to the DRC for further review is required.

The site is located among existing hotels on property owned by the Sarasota-Manatee Airport Authority, which will lease the property to the hotel ownership.

A hotel with the Kompose flag already stands along University Parkway near the airport entrance on a nearly adjacent lot. With the new Kompose Hotel planned, no information on the future of that branding was available, and Kapstones did not respond to a request for clarification.

Meanwhile, closer to downtown, in the Rosemary District, a development plan for a 24-unit condominium building currently named 7th and Central received partial sign-off on its third submittal to the DRC. Designed by Halflants + Pichette of Sarasota, the project will require demolition of multifamily housing along Cohen Way between Sixth and Seventh streets.

The new building, which will front Seventh Street, is utilizing bonus height provisions of the Rosemary Residential Overlay District by providing a new public park along Cohen Way where a portion of the existing housing now stands. 

The proposed development does not include attainable units. Vehicular access will remain at the current driveway on Seventh Street to a parking lot that also serves commercial buildings along Central Avenue, which is proposed to remain.

With few comments remaining to be addressed, the 7th and Central development received partial DRC sign-off and remaining issues may be addressed individually with the departmental reviewers.