Long-vacant Collins Park Hotel block to reopen as a Hilton in early 2027

The historic Collins Park Hotel buildings at 2000 Park Ave., vacant for years, are set to reopen in early 2027 as the 289-room Hilton Miami Beach, Hilton announced Friday.

The hotel is in the Museum Historic District near Collins Park, a few blocks from the Miami Beach Convention Center. Hilton said the project restores and connects a cluster of buildings from 1938 to 1953 while keeping each one’s own architecture.

Hilton’s release lists the Collins Park Hotel, designed by Henry Hohauser and finished in 1939, which housed the U.S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command during World War II; the former Adams Hotel and the former Copley Terrace Apartments, both by L. Murray Dixon in 1938; Albert Anis’s Tyler Hotel from 1940; the S&M Apartments, built in 1948 and later known as Sunking II; and the Lord Charles and Gamshire, a pair Anis designed in 1953. The release says the buildings sat empty for years and were damaged by a fire in 2012.

The site is designated by the city’s Historic Preservation Board, so the work is subject to historic review, Hotel Dive reported in March. That report said the hotel was then expected to open in May 2026, after Peachtree Group made a $103 million bridge loan to recapitalize and finish the project. The new early-2027 date comes from Hilton; neither Hilton’s release nor the March reports explain the delay.

For neighbors, Hilton says the hotel will have a ground-level courtyard pool and two rooftop pools, a restaurant, a café with grab-and-go food, a rooftop bar and an on-site market. The release does not say which of those will be open to the public or give an exact opening date.

The Hilton will be one of two new hotels near the Convention Center. The 800-room Grand Hyatt Miami Beach next to the center is set to open in late 2027, according to the city, as cited by Hotel Dive.