Sarasota luxury hotel plans starting to gel

Hotel Laurent would add 140 upscale rooms on site of a county-owned surface parking lot

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 6:00 a.m. September 7, 2018
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COURTESY RENDERING -- Plans for the five-star Hotel Laurent in Sarasota have begun to come into focus.
COURTESY RENDERING -- Plans for the five-star Hotel Laurent in Sarasota have begun to come into focus.
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Even before it closes on the nearly one-acre property at 20 N. Washington Blvd., a New York-based firm’s plans for a new five-star hotel in Sarasota are gelling.

Versaille St. Germain LLC, an entity controlled by former New York investment firm executive L. Ronald Gray, has honed plans for its Hotel Laurent lodging property across from Sarasota’s Lynn Silvertooth Judicial Center.

 

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