A Hilton-owned Hampton Inn is the latest company to announce it will join Bridgeport”™s Steelpointe Harbor.
The company will build a six-story, 120-room waterfront hotel between East Main and Pembroke streets. Construction will begin following the completion of work on the waterfront bulkhead, which is ongoing.
“Hilton has given their approval to go ahead with the project,” Robert Christoph, Jr., principal of Bridgeport Landing Development, part of Miami-based RCI Group, said. “It speaks volumes to where the project has gotten, and the comfort level national and international brands have with coming to the city of Bridgeport.”
Steelpointe Harbor, on the Steel Point peninsula, is a 2 million-square-foot waterfront development with plans for retail, restaurants and entertainment, two hotels, 1,100 mid- and high-rise residential units, 30,000 square feet of office space and a 200-slip, full-service, deep-water marina.
The $50 million first phase of Steelpointe Harbor, which includes Bass Pro Shops, Starbucks, Chipotle and T-Mobile, is currently underway and will open this year.
Starbucks and Chipotle have each held job fairs within the past couple weeks. They will open in a complex located at the corner of Stratford Avenue and East Main Street with T-Mobile in the next month or so.
Bass Pro Shops will open its Steelpointe Harbor location by the end of the year.
In May, Bridgeport Landing Development announced Cinépolis USA, a luxury cinema complex, will build a 50,000-square-foot cinema at Steelpoitne Harbor. Construction on the Cinépolis movie theater and other components of the second phase will begin in 2016 with an anticipated opening in 2017.
Dredging work on the Bridgeport Harbor is also now moving forward with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developing the plan.
