Sarasota luxury hotel plans starting to gel

Hotel Laurent would add 140 upscale rooms on site of a county-owned surface parking lot

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 6:00 a.m. September 7, 2018
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COURTESY RENDERING -- Plans for the five-star Hotel Laurent in Sarasota have begun to come into focus.
COURTESY RENDERING -- Plans for the five-star Hotel Laurent in Sarasota have begun to come into focus.
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Even before it closes on the nearly one-acre property at 20 N. Washington Blvd., a New York-based firm’s plans for a new five-star hotel in Sarasota are gelling.

 

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