The ground is being cleared for the new Grand Bohemian Hotel that will dramatically frame the eastern side of the Liberty Bridge in Falls Park.

The 187-room hotel will resemble a rustic Sierra Nevada-style lodge and will be perched on a currently grown-over bluff above the Reedy River Falls.

The hotel's developer, The Kessler Collection, has released new 3D renderings by way of a wood model to show how the hotel will be oriented in downtown Greenville's most-iconic locale.

The hotel will present a two-story restaurant and bar overlooking the Liberty Bridge and the falls.

The hotel is being built in place of the former Wyche law firm offices, which have been demolished. The firm moved yards up the way on East Camperdown Way in an office building it already owned.

With the development, the eastern landing of the Liberty Bridge will be transformed from an unassuming experience into an active park entranceway.

The eastern landing will feature a new civic lawn that will replace the current parking lot, though Mayor Knox White said many of the parking spaces will be replaced with on-street parking along East Camperdown Way.

The Nexen Pruett office building directly across will remain and the riverbank landscaped north along the river, said Brody Glenn, the developer of the nearby Camperdown project.

The hotel development will clear out the bluff that faces the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts along the Reedy River.

The hotel developers are scheduled for an official groundbreaking on April 17.

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