Downtown Austin hotel moving forward without Trump affiliation
A developer is releasing new details about a hotel planned for downtown Austin that last fall was linked to the development team of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
This week, however, Empyrean Development said Trump is not involved in the Austin project, which developers are calling Hotel Mirabeau.
“We are focused on moving forward with the current team that has been assembled. Neither Trump Hotels, nor Scion, nor any other affiliate is involved in the development, design, ownership or any other aspect of this project,” Mark Miner, a spokesman for Empyrean, a new company founded by developers Brett Norwich and Craig Bull, said in a written statement.
Empyrean said the 33-story hotel will be operated by Capella Hotel Group. The project will will have 297 rooms and a total of 282,320 square feet of space, according to a fact sheet Miner provided.
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