The new luxury hotel built through and around Salt Lake City’s historic Union Pacific Depot has an opening date — and it’s soon.
Asher Adams, a 225-room boutique hotel at the intersection of 400 West and South Temple, next to The Gateway, will open on Halloween, Oct. 31, the hotel announced Thursday.
Building the hotel has included a major overhaul of the iconic former railway station, and an example of an adaptive reuse project — transforming the depot into a hotel that the company boasts includes an eight-story guest-room tower, a restaurant, two bars, a coffee shop, and space for business functions and social events.
Asher Adams — named for two cartographers who first mapped rail routes through the West — is Salt Lake City’s first hotel in the Marriott Autograph Collection. The railroad theme is carried throughout the hotel’s design, from the rooms to the restaurants.
The hotel’s signature restaurant, Rouser, is on the ground floor and promises “New American fare with an open kitchen as its main focal point,” according to the hotel’s news release. The hotel also features two bars — No. 119, called a “whiskey-forward bar” on the second floor, and a cocktail lounge in the main depot, The Bar at Asher Adams — and a club-car-themed coffee shop called Counterpart.
The hotel’s website is now taking bookings starting Nov. 17. Minimum available room rates in the last two weeks of November range from $227 to $371 a night for a guest room, and from $1,362 to $2,198 a night for the most expensive suite.
The Union Pacific Depot, originally called Union Station when it opened in 1908, was built in the French Renaissance architectural style. It served as downtown Salt Lake City’s main railroad depot for decades, connecting Utah to destinations in California and Oregon.
Union Pacific donated the station — which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places — to the state of Utah in 1989. The Boyer Co., the Salt Lake City developer of The Gateway, bought it in 1999 along with other nearby acreage, and the area was launched as an open-air retail mall and residential complex in late 2001.
Vestar, a privately held owner-operator of nearly 50 retail properties across the West, bought The Gateway with Oaktree Capital Management in 2016, and has invested more than $100 million in improving its facilities and common areas. The firm has also attracted some major office tenants to The Gateway’s converted retail spaces, including the biotechnology company Recursion Pharmaceuticals.
The Asher Adams Hotel is being built by a partnership between two real estate development companies, The Athens Group and Hatteras Sky. Pivot, a hotel-operating subsidiary of Atlanta-based Davidson Hospitality Group, will manage Asher Adams’ day-to-day operations.
Read the full article from The Salt Lake Tribune here.
Learn more about Hatteras Sky’s hospitality portfolio here.