From the Ground Up: Hotel Vandivort, Phase II

Owner/developer: John and Billy McQueary
General contractor: Branco Enterprises Inc.
Architect: BatesForum LLC
Engineers: Olsson, civil; Mettemeyer Engineering LLC, structural; and CJD Engineering LLC, mechanical, electrical and plumbing
Size: 42,000 square feet
Estimated cost: $9.5 million
Lender: Central Bank of the Ozarks
Estimated completion: mid-2019
Project description: Three years after opening Hotel Vandivort downtown, the McQueary brothers are adding a second boutique property adjacent to the first. With another 48 hotel rooms planned, the project would roughly double Vandivort’s maximum occupancy. It also features a fifth-story rooftop bar called The Vantage. The building is going up northwest of its current property, on the previous Vandivort parking lot at McDaniel Street and Robberson Avenue. The McQuearys converted a century-old building in a $13 million project to open their first boutique hotel.