New hotel will be Excelsior s first in 60 years It s the first one in 60 years in the city, which has had about a dozen in the past. January 29, 2021 6:23pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Excelsior, a one-time summer vacation mecca, is about to get its first hotel in 60 years four luxury rooms on the second floor of a downtown building previously occupied by dilapidated empty apartments.
The Hotel Excelsior is under construction on Water Street, the city s main drag, a couple of blocks from Lake Minnetonka.
It s the second hotel in the past few years to open anywhere around the lake, which in the late 1800s was ringed with grand hotels. The 92-room Hotel Landing in Wayzata, across the street from the lake, opened in 2017. Excelsior also has a bed-and-breakfast, the Bird House Inn.