Hilton Garden Inn Project Delayed

Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says delays in design work on a new Hilton Garden Inn in downtown Cheyenne have moved back the expected opening date for the hotel.

He says that while originally work on the project had been expected to wrap up late this year or early in 2016, it's now more likely the 170 + room, ten story lodging facility will open sometime in 2017.

Kaysen says he's hopeful groundbreaking on the project will start by late this summer, adding he expects construction to take about two years. He emphasized the delays are not due to any issues with city regulations, but rather because it has taken longer for hotel planners to come up with a design for the facility than had been expected.

The construction site for the Hilton Garden Inn is the corner of Pioneer and 17th in downtown Cheyenne. Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Dale Steenbergen has said the hotel could give the downtown area a boost, both by attracting hotel guests to the area as well as possibly encouraging secondary businesses to locate in that area.