New Nullaġvik Hotel Under Construction in Kotzebue
The Nullaġvik Hotel is a mainstay in the heart of the NANA region, and has been since it opened in Kotzebue in 1975. Today, construction on a new hotel, directly adjacent to the existing property, is underway. The new Nullaġvik hotel is expected to be ready for guests in the fall of 2011.
The first phase of the new hotel includes 78 well-appointed guest rooms including seven suites to provide comfortable, modern lodging for NANA shareholders and other visitors to the NANA region. The facility will have a meeting room that will accommodate up to 100 people, a full-service restaurant, a fitness center, and an observation deck overlooking Kotzebue Sound.
Owned by Nullaġvik, LLC, a wholly-owned NANA subsidiary, the hotel project is a collaboration of many of the NANA businesses. NANA Development Corporation is overseeing the real estate and financing of the hotel project; WHPacific provided the architectural and interior design; NANA WorleyParsons is assisting with the mechanical design; DOWL HKM is providing civil engineering; NANA Construction is overseeing the hotel construction and managing the general contractor SKW Eskimos, Inc., a subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation; while NMS Lodging Division will manage the operation of the new property.
Photos from the most recent tour of the Nullagvik Hotel, June 23-24, 2011.