A vacant office building in Oxon Hill is primed to be converted into a small hotel after the Prince George’s County Planning Board unanimously approved the project’s site plan Thursday.
The five-story, 54,600-square-foot office building at 6192 Oxon Hill Road would be converted into a 100-room hotel. The owner and developer, a subsidiary of Laxmi Hotels Group LLC based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, will now bring the project to the Prince George’s County Council and from there to the building permit phase of development.
Laxmi President Kunal Dave said the company acquired the property in 2018 with the intention of converting it into a hotel. Because of the shifting market, Dave said Laxmi may shift to offer a lower-cost, select-service hotel with amenities including a coffee shop, pool, business center and a meeting room. Laxmi paid just over $4 million for the 1.63-acre property, according to public records.
Laxmi, which has 70 properties across 11 states, will not be the operator of the hotel. It is currently in talks with a handful of brands to bring the Oxon Hill hotel under a flag by next summer. The developer started the process more than a year ago, before the Covid-19 pandemic, said Traci Scudder, the company’s land use attorney.
