LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A downtown Louisville development committee approved a permit application to demolish the former EMW Women's Surgical Center as a 27-story hotel project begins to take shape.
The Downtown Development Review Overlay Committee signed off on the demolition at 136, 138 and 140 West Market Street. EMW closed in 2022 after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The $175 million project planned for 2nd and Market streets in downtown Louisville is set to come complete with a grand ballroom, rooftop pool and street-level restaurant. NuLu-based Zyyo confirmed in July its plans to build the tower, taking over the site of the former EMW Women's Surgical Center next to the Kentucky International Convention Center. The project is called One Forty West, Zyyo founder and CEO Nick Campisano said.
The two sites were sold earlier this year for $4,066,667.
The project calls for an upscale 300-room hotel with a 6,000-square-foot rooftop bar and a pool. A 7,500-square-foot restaurant is planned for the first floor, and more than 12,000 square feet of ballroom and meeting space is planned on the second floor. Right across the street on West Market, Zyyo has opened the new Hotel Bourré Bonne, part of the Curio Collection by Hilton. It feature 168 rooms and opened at the end of April this year.
According to documents filed with the city, Zyyo plans to demolish the buildings before the end of 2025 and begin construction on the hotel project in early-2027. In the meantime, they plan to plant grass on the property and erect walls to house public art and planter boxes.
Zyyo still must be awarded a demolition permit before work can begin.
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