City design panel OKs Harbor East Hyatt Place

The city’s design panel signed off on the new Harbor East Hyatt Place Thursday.

The Planning Commission’s Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel recommended final approval for the 130,000-square-foot hotel proposed for Harbor East. Projects that receive the go-ahead from UDARP must go in front of the Planning Commission before being fully approved.

But the Harbor East Hyatt Place is in the final planning stages, as construction is scheduled to begin on the 208-room hotel containing approximately…