New hotel planned for SRQ airport property

The city of Sarasota's Development Review Committee has received an application for a new Kompose Hotel just off Airport Circle.

By Andrew Warfield
| 11:30 a.m. November 24, 2025
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A rendering of the proposed 7th and Central condominiums.

Manatee-Sarasota

The city of Sarasota is reviewing plans for a new hotel at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

Making its first appearance before the Sarasota Development Review Committee on Nov. 19 was Kompose Hotel, a 60-room, four-story hotel on a 2.25-acre vacant lot between University Parkway and Rental Car Road. Accessory uses will include a business center, fitness center, and a 100-seat restaurant open to the public.

The Kompose Hotel brand is owned by Kapstones, a privately held Sarasota-based real estate development and hospitality company.

A resubmittal to the DRC for further review is required.

The site is located among existing hotels on property owned by the Sarasota-Manatee Airport Authority, which will lease the property to the hotel ownership.

A hotel with the Kompose flag already stands along University Parkway near the airport entrance on a nearly adjacent lot. With the new Kompose Hotel planned, no information on the future of that branding was available, and Kapstones did not respond to a request for clarification.

This article originally appeared on sister site YourObserver.com.

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Andrew Warfield

Andrew Warfield is the Sarasota Observer city reporter. He is a four-decade veteran of print media. A Florida native, he has spent most of his career in the Carolinas as a writer and editor, nearly a decade as co-founder and editor of a community newspaper in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.