New $10M Hilton hotel to begin construction in Brownsville

There’s a growing cluster of hotels in Brownsville near East Morrison Road and Pablo Kisel Boulevard, which sits just north of Sunrise Mall along Interstate 69.

By November 2026, there’ll be one more, as a seven-story, Hilton-branded Embassy Suites hotel with nearly 170 rooms is planned, according to Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation records.

The $10 million project, which spans 179,000 square feet, is expected to begin construction in January 2026. The future hotel will sit along the 3301 Pablo Kisel Boulevard near the intersection of Springmart Boulevard, just east of the Interstate.

The Embassy Suites is led by developer Hershal Patel, owner of Orbit Hospitality LLC, public records show. Patel also runs Ruby Red Hospitality, among other ventures, and is the chairman of the McAllen Chamber of Commerce.

In 2023, Patel purchased the Brownsville site from Leonardo Olmeda and Adriana Saldana with a recorded sale price of $10, but leveraged a $1.5 million loan from Laredo-based International Bank of Commerce, Cameron County deed records show.

The Embassy Suites hotel designer is 9Yards Inc., overseen by Stan Cromartie in the Houston area.

Contractor Alamo System Industries, based in Pharr, is working on construction, city of Brownsville records show.

The hotel is expected to have suite-style guest rooms and 12,000 square feet of meeting and event space. The closest Embassy Suites is in McAllen, next to the McAllen Convention Center, but there’s also one in Laredo, Corpus Christi, and San Antonio.

There’s already a four-story-tall Home2Suites, a different style of Hilton hotel, nearby, which was built in 2016 for $5 million, records show. There’s also an Everhome Suites, which cost $13.8 million back in 2023, operated by Choice Hotels. Grocery store chain Natural Grocers, within a 5-minute drive of the hotels, along Morrison Road, opened in January 2025.

Neither the Embassy Suites hotel developers nor the Hilton brand was immediately available for comment for this news story.