Group files site plan for beachfront hotel

SARASOTA — Ocean Properties Hotels Resorts & Affiliates has filed more detailed plans with Sarasota officials to revamp and expand its Sandcastle Hotel on Lido Key Beach.

The company's plan would add 128 new rooms to the existing 176-room beachfront hotel, along with 20,000 square feet of meeting and restaurant space. Plans call for the existing 64-year-old hotel to be razed and replaced with a pair of towers, rising nine and 10 floors, respectively.

Ocean Properties also is seeking to rezone the six-acre property and eliminate a pair of existing driveways, according to a site plan that has been filed.