The University of Virginia (UVA) and its partners have broken ground on a new 223,000-square-foot hotel and conference center in Charlottesville, which is slated to debut in spring 2025. The hospitality center will be managed by Pyramid Global Hospitality, and its official name will be revealed at a future date.
Those present at the groundbreaking ceremony included Jim Ryan, president of UVA; Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis, executive vice president and COO of UVA; Tim Rose, CEO of the UVA Foundation; Colette Sheehy, UVA’s senior vice president for operations and state government relations; Stephen Brockman, partner at Deborah Berke Partners; David Keith, CEO of Hanbury Architects, which is leading architecture and design for the property; Ellen Sinclair, senior vice president, Pyramid Global Hospitality; and Hal Powell, vice president, sales & marketing, Pyramid Global Hospitality.
Come spring 2025, the new 223,000-square-foot venue will anchor UVA’s emerging and strategically important Emmet-Ivy corridor. It aims to be a destination property and convening space for guests and visitors to the university, its local community, faculty, staff, students and conference attendees. The site will provide multiple spaces for hospitality, business and academic conferences, and includes plans for a University welcome area.
The hotel will feature 214 guestrooms and suites, a full-service restaurant with indoor and outdoor terrace dining, a rooftop café and a grab-and-go eatery. There will be 25,000 square feet of meeting and event space, including a 10,000-square-foot ballroom. The meeting and event venue will be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), and will conform to the university’s 2030 sustainability goals.
For more information, visit www.virginia.edu.
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