The Avery Hotel project along Route 66 in Tulsa that was announced this summer has fallen through.
The Tulsa World reported recently, citing the developer, that the plan to convert the long-closed Hawks Dairy Building at 11th Street (aka Route 66) and Lewis Avenue into a 100-room hotel has fizzled.
The hotel would have been across the street from the Mother Road Market.
Kimberly Honea of Varia Hospitality Group, the developer, confirmed to the newspaper that the project has been halted because a critical 180-day option period for acquiring the property had expired and was not extended.
The hotel, named after Cyrus “The Father of Route 66” Avery, was slated to also have a restaurant, retail space and a 3,600-square-foot meeting room and three smaller meeting spaces.
Developers had planned to open it in 2027.
According to Historic Tulsa, the Hawks Dairy Building, designed by Kansas City architect Gerad W. Wolf, opened in 1948. It closed in the early 1960s.
(Excerpted image from Google Street View of the Hawks Dairy Building in Tulsa)