VanDevender and Mullin declined to say whether Thompson Hotels is the flag for the hospitality aspect of The Mid project.

However, Mullin registered an entity called Thompson Residences Detroit LLC in February. And three sources confirmed that Thompson is the hotel brand behind the planned 228 rooms. In addition to the hotel, it's expected to include a restaurant and cocktail lounge.

An email seeking comment was sent last week and Thursday to a spokeswoman for Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels Corp., which bought Thompson Hotels brand's parent company, Two Roads Hospitality LLC, late last year.

Thompson is one of five brands by Two Roads Hospitality, with the others being Alila, Destination, Joie de Vivre and tommie. The Hyatt/Two Roads deal, announced in October, closed in December for $405 million. Joie de Vivre had previously planned a location in Brush Park as recently as 2015 but those plans were scrapped, according to the Brush Park Community Development Corp. website.

A 101-page Hyatt investor presentation from earlier this month says the average daily rate in the Two Roads portfolio is $241. The division's in-development pipeline is 35 properties totaling 5,000 rooms (about 143 rooms on average), while another 15 are in the letter of intent stage, for about 2,000 rooms and more than 40 are in late-stage discussions totaling more than 7,000 rooms.

The presentation dated March 5 says Two Roads Hospitality LLC has 65 hotels totaling about 12,000 rooms (about 185 rooms each on average) and 10 condominium properties with about 1,500 units (150 units each on average).

It would be just the latest boutique hotel property to come to the market. Earlier Thursday, it was announced that a 154-room "upscale" Cambria Hotel is slated for the building at 600 W. Lafayette Blvd. Choices Hotels International Inc. (NYSE: CHH) signed an agreement with a local joint venture to develop the new hotel to open next year, it said in a news release.

Several have opened in the last year alone, including the 130-room Shinola Hotel by Dan Gilbert's Bedrock LLC and Shinola/Detroit LLC.

The $33 million, 110-room Element Detroit by a joint venture between Roxbury Group and Detroit-based The Means Group Inc. opened in January, and the $20 million, 98-room Siren Hotel by New York City-based ASH NYC opened in 2018.

Those in the planning and development stages include a 154-room West Elm hotel immediately south of the planned Thompson Hotel, plus a $34.5 million conversion of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Downtown Detroit into a Hotel Indigo and a roughly 100-room boutique hotel in the former Standard Accident Insurance Co. building at 640 Temple St., which is undergoing a $65 million redevelopment by Christos Moisides, Gretchen Valade and David Sutherland.

An investment group between Moisides, Sutherland and Tony Saunders is also pumping $24.4 million into a renovation of the Hotel St. Regis in the New Center area and Bedrock is including an estimated 100- to 150-room hotel in its $311 million redevelopment of the Book Tower and Book Building on Washington Boulevard.

Gilbert's Bedrock is also exploring a conversion of the former Detroit Police Department headquarters building at 1300 Beaubien St. into a roughly 200-room boutique hotel, said Andrew Leber, vice president of hospitality for the Detroit-based real estate development, ownership, management and leasing company.

A hotel component is also being considered for the state's tallest building being constructed on the site of the former J.L. Hudson's department store site, currently expected to be somewhere between 800 feet and 912 feet in height, costing at least $909 million.