Silver Cloud, Landowners Seeking Approvals for Stadium Hotel

SEATTLE-Silver Cloud Hotels is venturing into uncharted territory with its latest hotel proposal. The 250-room facility, to include an 8,100-sf restaurant and a rooftop lap pool, would max out 20,000-sf lot adjacent industrial buildings and two major league stadiums on the south side of Seattle’s Downtown core.

The building would replace a gas station at the northeast corner of 1st Avenue South and Royal Brougham Way, an intersection that also includes one entrance to the Seattle Mariners baseball stadium. The Seahawks new stadium is immediately northeast of the site. The gas station is the southern most property still within the Pioneer Square Historic District, which allows for hotels.

“(Silver Cloud Hotels) seems to think it’s very viable,” Scott Kemp, the city planner handling the application, tells GlobeSt.com. “Others say ‘why would anybody want to stay there?’”