Yet another new hotel appears to be headed for Columbia’s Vista. Here’s what we know

There could be a new hotel coming to downtown Columbia.

According to city of Columbia documents, the new hotel would be at the southwest corner of Hampton and Wayne streets, not far from the Vista district. The hotel would be across Wayne Street from the city’s Memorial Park.

Columbia City Council on Oct. 18 gave initial approval to an ordinance that would authorize a $28,000 sale of 0.16 acres of city-owned property on nearby Washington Street that would help make way for the hotel project. That is an unopened portion of Washington Street, per the ordinance.

A memo from city staff to Council notes the land at Hampton and Wayne is “a complex site to make work for a development” and that the sale of the nearby unopened piece of Washington Street “will provide the area necessary for parking and site improvements” for the project.

Details are scarce on the would-be hotel project, which is being planned by company called AGS Columbia LLC. In city documents the effort is referred to simply as “Project Name: Proposed Hotel at Wayne Street and Hampton Street.”

The brand of the hotel has not been announced. The city’s ordinance said it would be a six-story hotel.

This project would be just the latest rumbling when it comes to hotels in downtown Columbia.

A new Cambria Hotel just opened at 1000 Lady St. in the Vista. Meanwhile, the award-winning Hotel Trundle on Taylor St. announced it would be expanding to the 1500 block of Main Street with an addition called The Flutter Wing.

Over at 1200 Main St., hotelier Rick Patel is planning a Marriott Moxy brand hotel in the 11-story high rise that was built in 1913 and was one of Columbia’s first skyscrapers, right across from the S.C. State House. That hotel is set to have bars on the roof and in the basement.

Developer Bo Aughtry has pitched a 200-room Marriott hotel very near the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, though those plans have not been finalized.

And earlier this year, a combination Homewood Suites and Tru by Hilton hotel planned for the corner of Gervais and Williams street in the Vista received approval from the city’s design board, though some nearby residents have expressed opposition to the seven-story, 249-room project.