After decades of waiting, the long-shuttered Gulfstream Hotel in downtown Lake Worth Beach will reopen its doors to patrons this fall, and would-be guests will be able to book reservations starting on June 19, 2025, for summer 2026, hotel representatives said in a press release.
The Gulfstream Hotel, at One Lake Avenue, will open 90 rooms to customers when it opens this year, with 50 more rooms coming in 2026, the hotel said in a news release. It also will have 50 apartments, a rooftop restaurant, bar, spa, gym and a 273-space parking garage once fully opened. Nightly rates have not yet been published.
The Gulfstream, built a few minutes’ walk from The Intracoastal Waterway on Lake Worth Beach’s easternmost city block, opened its doors in 1925. It has been closed since 2005. But even before then, it had gone through several closings, remodelings and reopenings.
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Hotel lost roof, top floors in 1928 hurricane
The hotel first closed its doors following the infamously devastating 1928 hurricane. The storm’s 145 mph winds blew the roof off the hotel, damaged its fifth and sixth floors and filled its lobby with 7 feet of sand. The crippled hotel opened again briefly but closed following bankruptcy brought about in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash.
The hotel closed and reopened again in the 1980s and 1990s. It struggled financially as customers booked rooms in newer hotels along eastern Palm Beach County and its waterfront. The Gulfstream last booked customers from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s.
The vacant hotel was bought and sold several times since then, before coming under ownership of Amy Gill and her husband, Amrit Gill, who head Missouri-based real estate development company Restoration St. Louis. They appealed to city voters in 2020 to approve a measure allowing them to build up the hotel’s neighboring property to match the hotel’s 87-foot height. Voters overwhelmingly approved that.
The historic Gulfstream Hotel is expected to open this year in Lake Worth Beach.
“We’re thrilled to welcome the Gulfstream Hotel back into the fabric of Lake Worth Beach,” Mayor Betty Resch said in the news release. “This project shows what’s possible when history, vision, and community come together. I look forward to seeing residents and visitors alike enjoy this jewel of our city once again.”
Anyone who has booking inquiries or wants to know other information about the hotel can email info@thegulfstreamhotel.com.
Chris Persaud is a reporter for The Palm Beach Post. You can reach him at cpersaud@pbpost.com.
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