Drury Hotels is building its first Tampa Bay metro property at 802 South Falkenburg Road, an eight-story, 210-room hotel that the Missouri-based chain is targeting for a fall 2026 opening. The family-owned operator announced the project on September 25, 2025, and online booking for the property is set to open on the chain's booking site on June 11, 2026.
The hotel sits at the intersection of Falkenburg Road and State Road 60, one block east of Interstate 75 and a short drive from the Brandon Exchange shopping district. The 140-store mall, formerly Westfield Brandon, was bought by North American Development Group from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield for $220 million in 2023 and rebranded in May 2024. The Drury parcel previously held a big-box retail tenant. Vertical construction is underway using post-tension concrete, the same method Drury has standardized on its newer Florida builds.
Brandon is the largest unincorporated census-designated place in Hillsborough County and the suburban anchor of the I-75 corridor east of Tampa. The Falkenburg site sits about eighteen miles east of Tampa International Airport and roughly twenty minutes from downtown Tampa via the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway, the toll connector that links eastern Hillsborough to the Tampa waterfront.
Drury Plaza Tampa Brandon will be the company's sixth Florida hotel and its third opening in the state in four calendar years, after the 2022 Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando – Disney Springs Area and the 2024 Drury Plaza Hotel Tallahassee. It is the first Drury property anywhere in the Tampa Bay metro. "We look forward to welcoming guests to our first hotel in the Tampa Bay Area," said Chuck Drury, the company's chief executive, in the September 25 announcement.
The amenity stack and the meeting block
The Brandon hotel carries Drury's full signature amenity stack. Guests receive a complimentary hot breakfast each morning and a 5:30 Kickback evening reception that includes hot food, beer, wine, mixed drinks, and soft drinks; the included-beverage close has been one of the chain's longest-standing differentiators against limited-service competitors. A 24-hour fitness and business center, an outdoor pool and spa, free on-site parking, a lobby Guest Market, and a Kitchen + Bar with late-night service round out the public spaces. Wi-Fi is free throughout the building.
