A second Drury Hotels location may be coming to the capital city now that the hotel chain has purchased a prime block in downtown Tallahassee.

Deed records show the former Greyhound bus station is now owned by Drury Hotels Company LLC., a top-tier family-owned and operated chain that's received high marks in customer service for upscale hotels.

Last month, the Drury Hotels purchased two parcels totaling 2 acres for $12 million, according to property records.

Scant details are known at this time about the size and scale of the possible Drury Hotels site. However, considering the location, it could be built on one of the city's busiest and most visible streets and fuel a growing presence of new hotels downtown.

Just last month, city commissioners agreed to accept an $11-million offer from the 908 Group, a Tampa-based real estate firm with a history of student housing projects in CollegeTown.

The 908 Group wants to build an apartment building and hotel on the city-owned Chevron and Johns parcels totaling about 5 acres — arguably the two largest undeveloped sites downtown

There hasn't been another hotel debut downtown since the AC Hotel Tallahassee opened on the fringes of Cascades Park in 2021. And, the proposed Washington Square, where a Loews Hotel was supposed to anchor the redevelopment, has been a dead project and eyesore since 2019 and shows no immediate signs of a new chapter.

In northeast Tallahassee, in late 2023, Drury Hotels opened a seven-story, 180-room hotel as its first capital city location at 1690 Raymond Diehl Road off Capital Circle Northeast, formerly the site of a small strip mall and Osaka Japanese Steak House.

The hotel has more than 150 locations in 30 states under the family-owned hotelier brand, which includes Drury Inn, Drury Suites and Pear Tree Inn.

Other Florida locations include cities like Gainesville, Fort Myer, Orlando and Disney Springs. A new Drury Plaza Hotel Tampa Brandon, located off I-75, just east of downtown near the Brandon Exchange shopping district, opens later this year.

Contact Economic Development Reporter TaMaryn Waters at tlwaters@tallahasee.com and follow @TaMarynWaters on X.

This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Drury Hotels buys downtown Tallahassee Greyhound bus station