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Broadway hotel expansion slated for construction this year

Construction of the second tower of The Broadway hotel in downtown Columbia is finally set to start later this year, according to the owner.

The city council in 2017 approved $2 million in tax breaks for the project on Walnut. The new tower will include more meeting space, and nearly double the available rooms to 194.

Broadway hotel owner David Parmley says construction was going to start last spring before the pandemic hit.

“With [COVID-19], it’s kind of brought everything to halt between the supply chain issues…I mean it’s amazing how much you can’t hardly get steel,” Parmley said on CEO Roundtable. “Everything is just kind of locked up, just like the whole economy supply chain-wise. It’s just very inefficient right now.”

Parmley is also the master developer for the hotel and other projects coming at the old Missouri state prison site in Jefferson City. He says you’ll eventually see a hotel and conference center there, and a lot more.

“There’s also land surrounding it that will be a kind of a mixed-use development that will take multiple years to build out. They’re really excited about the prospects of the parks department building a double sheet of ice down there [for] hockey. That would be very beneficial for both the hotel and the community there.”

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