{"id":282660,"date":"2026-05-07T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:52:07","slug":"whats-driving-this-texas-citys-latest-hotel-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282660\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s driving this Texas city’s latest hotel boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brownsville\u2019s hotel boom<\/a> isn\u2019t showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. As a number of multi-billion-dollar heavy industry operators set their sights on the Rio Grande Valley\u2019s largest and oldest city, so, too, are a multitude of extended-stay hotels.<\/p>\n

The latest one to be announced is a\u00a0Springhill Suites by Marriott, which could begin construction later this year, according to Hershal Patel, the prominent hotelier whose company, Ruby Red Hospitality, is spearheading the project. The Springhill Suites will be located on the north side of the city near the Sunrise Mall, right in the heart of one of Brownsville\u2019s busiest retail corridors. It\u2019ll be located next door \u2014 and share a parking lot with \u2014 another hotel project that Ruby Red is working on, an Embassy Suites by Hilton<\/a>, at 3301 Pablo Kisel Blvd., Brownsville, TX 78526.<\/p>\n

Patel announced the new hotel project in a Facebook post<\/a> on Wednesday, May 6. On Wednesday, the hotelier told MySA that Brownsville has become a \u201cformidable market\u201d in the best possible way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe\u00a0Brownsville market\u2019s been matured \u2014 and when I say mature, I mean they\u2019re diverse. They’ve got all those different tourism streams,\u201d Patel said.<\/p>\n

Over the last year, the city \u201con the border, by the sea\u201d has seen explosive growth in nearly every economic sector, from hospitality to cultural to commercial and industrial growth. In recent months, President Donald Trump announced that the\u00a0first full-scale oil refinery<\/a> to be built in the United States in 50 years will be built at the Port of\u00a0Brownsville. An Austin-based tech startup called Saronic Technologies wants to create\u00a0next-generation military drone ships<\/a> at the port. Several global energy companies are also investing in Brownsville, as is Amazon. And Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX<\/a> headquarters are located just a stone\u2019s throw away in the nascent city of Starbase. Meanwhile, Breaking Bad star, R.J. Mitte<\/a>, has committed to transforming Brownsville\u2019s downtown cultural arts scene.<\/p>\n

Last spring, Patel\u2019s company announced that it planned to build the $10 million Embassy Suites. A year later, as crews work on finishing the foundation in that project, Ruby Red has announced that\u00a0Springhill Suites will be built next door. Patel tells MySA that the Springhill Suites represents another $10-$20 million in construction investment. The hotel will have somewhere around 120 \u201cgenerously sized all-suite accommodations,\u201d according to a new splash page. Each suite features dedicated sleeping, working and relaxing spaces with trundle beds that can sleep up to six. In the hotel\u2019s common spaces, guests will find a business center, a 24-hour market filled with packaged snacks, and a gym.<\/p>\n

Patel expects the\u00a0Springhill Suites to get underway as soon as this fall. And once the foundation is poured, construction should take about 18 months. Meanwhile, the Embassy Suites could open as soon as late 2027. The two hotels represent Ruby Red Hospitality\u2019s entrance into the\u00a0Brownsville market. But the company, whose CEO is Patel\u2019s father, Barry Patel, is no stranger to large-scale infrastructure projects. The elder Patel previously served as South Padre Island\u2019s mayor, and Hershal Patel previously served as the chairman of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation. And Ruby Red Hospitality has a well-established footprint in McAllen and on South Padre Island, with hotels such as South Padre\u2019s Hilton Garden Inn and La\u00a0Copa Inn Beach Hotel and the Aloft Hotel and Courtyard by Marriott in McAllen. The younger Patel is eager to see Ruby Red continue to expand.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited. I mean, it\u2019s something that, personally, I\u2019ve been trying to advocate for within our company for a while,\u201d Patel said, adding he\u2019s eager to have an \u201cexcuse\u201d to enjoy all of\u00a0Brownsville\u2019s amenities with his wife and children. That includes Brownsville\u2019s iconic food scene, like the 104-year-old Rutledge Hamburgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brownsville\u2019s hotel boom isn\u2019t showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. As a number of multi-billion-dollar heavy industry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[821,2320,820,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-282660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-mysabusiness","tag-mysasotx","tag-mysastaff","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}