Hyatt Place hotel for Essendon Fields

Hyatt Place hotel for Essendon Fields
Jonathan ChancellorJuly 21, 2015

A 160-room Hyatt Place hotel and conference centre is envisaged for Essendon Airport.

Owners Lindsay Fox and Max Beck are adding the country's first Hyatt-branded business hotel to Melbourne's second terminal. 

The Essendon Fields chief executive Chris Cowan told The Australian Financial Review it was intended to meet the needs of business people in the north-west of Melbourne "who have very limited options."

The $60 million investment is the largest project for the airport which originally intended for closure after the opening of Tullamarine.

Essendon Fields, which was privatised in 2001, is a 300-hectare site.

There are also plans for a $20 million hangar project to service the growing private jet market.

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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