For Star subscribers: Millions went into renovating this downtown Tucson space. Now it's closing a little more than a year after opening its doors.
Cathalena E. Burch The Citizen Hotel, a 10-room boutique hotel downtown, will serve its last cocktails in the lobby bar on Saturday, May 20.The closing comes nearly 15 months to the day that the hotel opened and coincides with Tucson businesses bracing for the annual summer slowdown. That's when tourism dramatically drops, and the city loses its reliable revenue stream from the loss of University of Arizona students and winter residents.
"We knew it would be risky," Lane, who owns The Downtown Clifton boutique hotel at 485 N. Stone Ave., said of the project. Over the years, the building housed professional offices, including doctors, dentists, lawyers and radio stations. In metro Tucson, hotels in the first quarter of this year had an occupancy rate of 73.8%, which was 3.3% higher than last year's first quarter, the state reported.
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