The corner of King and Spring has a new identity, and it comes with 70-plus beers on tap.
The former Hyatt Place, fully renovated, reopens July 15 as The Lowline Hotel, a "signature lifestyle property" that trades business-hotel anonymity for a lineup of drink-and-play amenities. The name nods to the adjacent Lowcountry Lowline, the future linear park and trail meant to run about two miles up the spine of the peninsula.
The amenities are where the story lives. Pour Taproom, a rooftop option, promises more than 70 craft beers on tap. The Long Game at Leeward is a golf-simulator lounge. Spirited Coffee & Provisions is a market-style café pouring Savannah-roasted PERC coffee. And Leeward Restaurant and Patio, the signature dining room, serves Lowcountry-leaning plates like chicken-and-waffle sliders with hot honey and a collard green frittata.
"Guests are promised the comfort and familiarity of a home cooked meal," said director of food and beverage Joey Worley, a folksy line for a property that's clearly aiming upmarket.
The money behind it tells the real story. Alabama-based Highline Hospitality Partners bought the apartment-style Hyatt House and the adjoining Hyatt Place near King and Spring for $113 million in 2024, one of the priciest commercial real estate deals in the region that year, then set about renovating and rebranding. The 197-room Lowline is part of the expanding JdV by Hyatt portfolio.
The design leans into Charleston's maritime past: deep navy interiors, oak finishes, headboards depicting stylized sandhill cranes, marble beverage cabinets in every room. There's an indoor pool, a fitness center, and 8,000 square feet of event space.
If you're keeping score on the luxification of upper King, this is a clean data point. A functional business hotel becomes a rooftop-taproom-and-golf-sim "lifestyle" destination, and the room count barely changes. The value is all in the reinvention. Managing partner Chuck Pomerantz calls Charleston "one of the country's most historic and spirited cities," and says the goal was a hotel "for the modern traveler."
Translation: the tourists are still coming, and the city keeps building nicer rooms to hold them. The Lowline is betting that a locals-friendly rooftop and a golf lounge can pull Charlestonians up the elevator too, not just the out-of-towners with a key card.
Doors open July 15. The rooftop, presumably, shortly after.
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