It’ll be just as suite in Spokane

Few eyebrows would rise to hear the penthouse at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan rents for up to $30,000 a night. After all, that’s New York, right?

Or that one 6,000-square-foot hotel suite in San Francisco will put you back $12,500 for a night, complete with maid, butler and limo service.

But here in Spokane, we’ve always been a little more conservative than those flashy metropolitan hubs.

We do have the Davenport Hotel, with its 3,000-square-foot Presidential Suite, renting for $2,000 a night. And the Coeur d’Alene Resort offers the Hagadone Suite, also 3,000 square feet, for $2,800 a night.

Now, with his planned Davenport Tower and Residences, Davenport owner Walt Worthy will push Spokane into that big-city realm. The penthouse suite there will have 12,000 square feet of space, about two-thirds of which will be enclosed, Worthy said. The rest will be gardens, patios and beautiful views, available exclusively to whomever is staying there.

Worthy hasn’t decided on the price but said it would be at least several thousand dollars a night.

Though Worthy said the Davenport Hotel’s largest suite is used mostly for parties and meetings, the occasional visiting celebrity, like Neil Diamond, also has slept on the custom-made bed.

Worthy said he’ll begin building the Davenport Towers on the corner of First and Post in mid-October. The 320- to 340-room hotel will have 18 stories, with a five-story parking garage behind it. Floors 16 and 17 will hold long-term hotel suites, available to rent for months at a time. The lower floors will be standard hotel rooms.

Worthy changed his mind about including condominiums because he’s “having so much fun” running a hotel, he said. His new hotel also will have a basement gym and swimming pool, and restaurants and shops on the ground floor, he said.