New four-story hotel planned for Navarre

A group of Alabama developers are working on building a new Holiday Inn Express on Frontera Street in Navarre.

Developers plan to build a four-story hotel with 117 rooms on a parcel of land that is approximately 2.47 acres, according to their site plan application form filed with Santa Rosa County. The hotel will be approximately 54,681 square feet.

The project’s civil permits plans, also filed with Santa Rosa County, show that hotel will be built in between the incoming Elevate Navarre Apartments and the Publix Super Market within the Shoppes of Navarre.

If approved, the proposed hotel would be the first Holiday Inn Express in Navarre.

Santa Rosa County’s Development Services department has already reviewed the project and provided feedback for developers before resubmitting their proposal, such as providing a floor plan for each of the hotel’s levels.

The Holiday Inn Express project is owned by the A&R Development Group, who are based in Gulf Shores, Alabama, according to civil permits plans. The group bought the parcel for the hotel project last March for $1.4 million, according to its warranty deed filed with Santa Rosa County.

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The owners of the Holiday Inn Express project submitted their site plan application on Jan. 19, then filed their plans with Santa Rosa County on Feb. 16. They were provided feedback from the county on March 28.

Updated plans for the project have not been filed with Santa Rosa County yet.