The hotel, the first Starwood product in Northeast Florida, willinclude 20,000 sf of meeting space, a spa, fitness center, retailspace, a restaurant and bar, two swimming pools, poolside café, anda lounge and bar adjacent to the 65-slip marina with boardwalkpromenade. The project is expected to be completed in fall 2010.Gatehouse Capital Corp. president and CEO Marty Collins tellsGlobeSt.com that the project is expected to cost $150 million.

The project will also include the Residences at the Westin St.Augustine with 70 three-bedroom residences. Collins says prices forthe units will be over $1 million. "St. Augustine is the oldesttown in the country," Collins says. "It doesn't have any realupscale hospitality or any conference space."

The Devlin Group will serve as the general contractors on theproject. Dallas-based ForrestPerkins will handle the interiorarchitecture and interior design for the hotel. The architect forthe condominiums is Hollywood, FL-based O'Donnell Dannwolf andPartners, Architects Inc. and the architect for the hotel isDallas-based HKS, Inc. The landscape architecture and site-planningwill be completed by Jacksonville-based Ervin, Lovett and Millerand Jacksonville-based England-Thims and Miller Inc. is theengineer on the project.