A new boutique resort has opened in the heart of Tyler with a goal of providing people with hospitality and convenience one of a kind to the South.
Owners Andrew and Grace Cryer acquired the outdated HG2 making at 109 E. Erwin St. in 2020 with the intent of creating a resort that site visitors and lifelong Tylerites can enjoy.
The pair named the resort The Thomas, which “kind of arrived from the really like of our relatives and of the name Thomas,” Grace Cryer mentioned. Andrew and Grace explained they have household associates with the name they wished to spend tribute to, she extra.
Whilst she and her spouse stay in Colorado, Grace Cryer is from the area and has experienced various generations of spouse and children are living in Tyler. She stated her great grandfather, Thomas Boyd Ramey Sr., was a founder of the Texas Rose Festival.
Grace Cryer claimed she thinks the addition of The Thomas “definitely delivers a lodging component that was lacking from the downtown region.”
She and her spouse have owned a couple of Airbnb’s for two many years in Tyler and have had achievements with them, she explained. If they are booked, persons often call and question if the couple has other spaces to rent, which led them to comprehend they could meet up with a have to have with the addition of a hotel.
“That’s type of where the aspiration started for my husband and I — that we have to have to do a significantly larger sized scale project. That was the hotel,” she explained. “We just experience like Tyler desires anything like this.
“We hope it’s reciprocated and people today enjoy it, and we hope it’s not just out-of-towners coming to keep but locals that are wanting to encounter the downtown Tyler lifetime because it is flourishing, and it is just finding began.”
The Thomas has eight suites that are “generously spaced,” with a king dimension mattress, sleeper couch, kitchenette and toilet, Grace Cryer said.
Lodge company also can visit the bar, called The Decide, in the foyer. The bar is open to the public 3 to 8 p.m. daily. It is reserved for lodge company at other periods.
“Our target is to seriously build a room and an environment for folks to come and have a drink if you’re a community, or you know, come and continue to be,” Grace Cryer explained. “We definitely want to clearly show persons what Tyler is all about, and that is Southern consolation and Southern hospitality, and we hope we can cater to that.”
The Thomas also is aimed at drawing people who may be doing work in downtown Tyler quickly as nicely as a younger group, she mentioned.
“We hope people today appear examine it out,” Grace Cryer reported. “We’re extremely fired up to offer this to Tyler.”
The Thomas Hotel and The Decide bar are anticipated to open up Aug. 1.