Developers have submitted plans to rebuild on the Santa Rosa site of the former Hilton Sonoma Wine Country hotel in Fountaingrove more than six years after it was destroyed in the Tubbs Fire.
The project calls for a boutique hotel with 158 rooms connected by landscaped walkways, a sprawling outdoor courtyard and a ballroom on just more than 11 acres off Round Barn Boulevard.
It’s being proposed by new owners Palo Alto-based Radiate Hospitality, the family-run company behind the rebirth of Petaluma’s historic brick silk mill as a Hampton Inn hotel.
Perry Patel, president of Radiate Hospitality, said the Hilton was a gathering space for visitors and locals alike who enjoyed the hotel’s food and drink offerings and gathering space.
He hopes to recreate that in the new project.
“This was the place to be, the hotel that the locals came to whether it was for weddings or for dining purposes,” he said. “So that’s what we’re trying to do, create that same anchor that the hotel once was while also catering to today’s travelers.”