Huntsville’s downtown district is continuing to grow as a new hotel along with a mixed-use development has been finalized.

The growth is the third phase of CityCentre, the project on the southern border of Big Spring Park near the Von Braun Center anchored by the AC Hotel by Marriott and the Eclipse luxury apartment complex.

The new hotel will be a Moxy, a 100-room boutique hotel under the Marriott flag. It will be located adjacent to the AC Hotel and the Eclipse and is the latest planned addition as Huntsville works to grow its inventory of hotel rooms in its downtown district.

The mixed-use development will be at the former site of the Huntsville Aquatic Center on Monroe Street near the downtown library. In addition to apartments, it will include office and retail space. The long-planned food hall would be about 15,000 square feet on the ground floor of the Moxy hotel.

Shane Davis, the director of urban and economic development, outlined the new developments at CityCentre in a presentation for the council to sell 0.36 acres to CityCentre III LLC. The strip of land, declared surplus by the council in approving the sale for $143,800, is just south of the surface parking lot behind the AC Hotel.

Plans call for Lowe Avenue to be extended to connect Joseph Lowery Boulevard and Monroe Street along strip of land through the CityCentre development. Davis said the city is in discussions with a developer that could lead to a multi-level parking deck where the surface lot behind the AC Hotel is currently located that would help ease the parking strain downtown.

Davis said the mixed-use building would be “very similar” to the Eclipse, the 278-unit development that fronts Williams Avenue overlooking Big Spring Park and stretches south down Lowery Boulevard toward the Twickenham district.

The CityCentre growth will also be in close proximity to a mixed-use development along St. Clair Avenue – the Vista at Councill Square – that broke ground in August. It will be a 5-floor building with 336 apartment units with additional phases planned in the future.

The Eclipse opened earlier this year and its ground-floor retail space is about 50% leased, Davis said, and announcements on those tenants are expected soon from CityCentre developers RCP Companies of Huntsville.