Traverse City’s Cherry Capital Airport (TVC) is getting a new hotel. Airport Director and CEO Kevin Klein says the Northwest Regional Airport Authority recently approved an agreement with the city’s Socks Construction to build an 89-room hotel with 5,000 square feet of banquet space and a potential rooftop bar. Two subsequent construction phases could increase the size to 160 rooms.
“We’re getting a lot of requests from area travelers who live throughout northern Michigan and want to be able to drive in, stay, and go out on those early-morning flights,” Klein says. The hotel would be a convenient option for meeting and event planners, too, he notes. “It will have shuttle services, and there is also all the availability of ground transportation services,” he says.
Construction will begin later this year, with the hotel (brand to be determined) expected to be operational by early 2028. A second concourse also is being built at the airport that will add five gates and a new walkway to the hotel.
