Growing area near Glendale's Westgate Entertainment District will add new hotel

Once-hotel-starved Glendale is about to get more sustenance. 

Real-estate developer HCW announced this week that it closed a land deal and will build an Aloft Hotel at the southwest corner of Glendale and 93rd avenues, neighboring the Westgate Entertainment District.

The four-story, 100-room hotel is expected to open in summer 2018.

This addition should boost overall hotel visits and revenue generated through a lucrative bed tax, in which more developed cities such as Phoenix and Scottsdale have seen greater success.

Glendale faced a steep development curve after opening the sports and entertainment district near Westgate. The city had just 400 beds when University of Phoenix Stadium opened there 11 years ago.

The area is now bustling with the Arizona Cardinals training camp at the stadium, along with Gila River Arena, Tanger Outlets, Dave & Buster's, a bowling alley, shops and restaurants.

The new location will add to the 1,605 hotel rooms Glendale currently has, and will compete with the nearby Home2Suites by Hilton, the Hampton Inn & Suites and the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa.

The Home2Suites was the city's most recent hotel development, which opened in March. 

Aloft Hotels touts itself as the first hotel to implement keyless check-in and offers patrons a robotic butler. The company has built 126 hotels since it first opened in 2008. 

HCW Development is based in Branson, Missouri, and has an office in Phoenix.

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