Boutique hotel in downtown Tyler aims to provide Southern hospitality | Local News

TYLER — A new boutique lodge has opened in the heart of Tyler with a target of providing site visitors with hospitality and ease and comfort one of a kind to the South.

House owners Andrew and Grace Cryer bought the old HG2 developing at 109 E. Erwin St. in 2020 with the intent of creating a hotel that website visitors and lifelong Tylerites can delight in.

The pair named the resort The Thomas, which “kind of came from the adore of our household and of the title Thomas,” Grace Cryer stated. Andrew and Grace reported they have family members users with the title they required to shell out tribute to, she included.

When she and her spouse reside in Colorado, Grace Cryer is from the space and has had several generations of loved ones reside in Tyler. She said her great grandfather, Thomas Boyd Ramey Sr., was a founder of the Texas Rose Pageant.

Grace Cryer said she thinks the addition of The Thomas “definitely delivers a lodging element that was lacking from the downtown space.”

She and her partner have owned a couple of Airbnb’s for two many years in Tyler and have had results with them, she stated. If they are booked, people today usually connect with and ask if the couple has other areas to lease, which led them to realize they could meet a need to have with the addition of a resort.

“That’s variety of in which the dream began for my husband and I — that we have to have to do a considerably much larger scale job. That was the lodge,” she claimed. “We just experience like Tyler demands something like this.

“We hope it is reciprocated and men and women enjoy it, and we hope it is not just out-of-towners coming to stay but locals that are wanting to working experience the downtown Tyler everyday living because it is flourishing, and it’s just acquiring began.”

The Thomas has eight suites that are “generously spaced,” with a king dimensions bed, sleeper couch, kitchenette and bathroom, Grace Cryer reported.

Lodge attendees also can go to the bar, termed The Decide, in the foyer. The bar is open to the community 3 to 8 p.m. day by day. It is reserved for lodge guests at other times.

“Our intention is to seriously produce a room and an environment for persons to occur and have a consume if you are a area, or you know, arrive and remain,” Grace Cryer said. “We definitely want to show folks what Tyler is all about, and that is Southern convenience and Southern hospitality, and we hope we can cater to that.”

The Thomas also is aimed at drawing individuals who may well be doing the job in downtown Tyler briefly as properly as a young crowd, she explained.

“We hope individuals arrive look at it out,” Grace Cryer mentioned. “We’re very energized to present this to Tyler.”

The Thomas Lodge and The Judge bar are envisioned to open Aug. 1.