Business View Magazine | May 2019

76 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2019 P R O U D P A R T N E R O F THE SEAGATE CONVENTION CENTER www. pepsico .com going beyond the bottle Centre; and a new, 200-room dual branded Hyatt Hotel. The 47-year-old Hotel Seagate, which now is partially demolished and has no walls, will be redeveloped into a Hyatt Place hotel with 128 nightly rooms, and a Hyatt House extended stay hotel with 68 suites with full kitchens. “It’s going to be financed with bonds, debt through short-term loans taken out by the County, the hotel/motel tax, and we’re also working on a naming rights deal we’re very close to signing,” says Miller. The project, slated for completion in a little more than two years, is expected to double the impact of visitors to Toledo to $50 million, annually. Miller adds that, once the expansion gets started, the Centre is also going to be upgrading its technology systems “to make sure we’re keeping up with what the latest and greatest needs to be for convention centers.” Meanwhile, SeaGate can claim that it already leads the pack when it comes to sustainability practices and programs. It has earned a LEED existing building certification, and Miller says that the