Frisco City Council is moving forward with plans for a Langham Hotels & Resorts hotel at Wade Park. Council approved staff to prepare a specific use permit for the hotel during tonight's meeting.

Langham Hotels & Resorts The Langham hotel is planned to have 32 stories.[/caption]

The Langham hotel, which would be the first location in Texas, is slated to open in early 2018 along the Dallas North Tollway at Lebanon Road.

Langham Hotels & Resorts has luxury hotels in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and New York City. The company also has acclaimed hotels throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific.

The hotel in Frisco would be designed by 5G Studio Collaborative in Dallas as a progressive high-rise structure. The hotel is planned have up to 32 floors, including 16 hotel floors and 10 floors of planned residential.

The city's zoning ordinance previously did not allow for hotels to have residential units. However, Council adopted an amendment to the zoning ordinance in 2015 to allow urban living units within a hotel tower with the adoption of an SUP.

Council is expected to vote on the Langham hotel's SUP at a later meeting.

The hotel is planned to have 288 hotel rooms and at least 33 residential units. Parking for hotel guests and residents would not be shared.

The hotel will be a part of the 175-acre Wade Park development, a mixed-use development along Frisco's $5 Billion Mile. Other tenants of the development include Hotel ZaZa, Whole Foods, Pinstripes Bowling and iPic Theaters.