A new hotel called The Moxy will open in February in downtown Springfield, Missouri, in the Medical Arts Building that was built in 1930.
According to the Springfield Daily Citizen, the hotel at 430 South Ave. is a partnership between O’Reilly Hospitality Management and Marriott International, Inc. The eight-story boutique hotel will offer 98 rooms, plus hospitality features.
The Moxy will feature a 3,300-square-foot rooftop bar with a restaurant named “The Eyrie,” as well as a basement with a food and beverage concept called “The Subterranean,” according to O’Reilly Build. The latter takes its name from Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novella “The Subterraneans,” according to a post on O’Reilly’s LinkedIn.
The Subterranean is “our jazz-barbecue dive,” O’Reilly said. “Speakeasy is the simple term that would evoke the ambiance a little bit.”
It would be about three blocks south of the St. Louis Street alignment of Route 66.
The Springfield-Greene County Library District posted a comprehensive history of the Medical Arts Building, which has been occupied by Great Southern Bank for more than 30 years.
(Artist’s rendering of Moxy Hotel in Springfield, Missouri, via O’Reilly Build)