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JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District
Savannah, Georgia, United States · JW Marriott · Core Luxury
This JW Marriott occupies a 1912 power plant that once supplied electricity to a growing Savannah, its riverfront campus reopened in 2020 as three connected hotel buildings, the Power Plant, Three Muses, and Atlantic, each with its own design identity built around the district's industrial bones. The redevelopment paired the hotel with restaurants, live music venues, and art galleries built directly into the old machinery halls rather than around them.
- 419 rooms
- Opened 2020
- Neighborhood: Savannah Historic District
About JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District
- Plant Riverside District won preservation awards from both the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation and the Historic Savannah Foundation in the same year it opened, 2021, plus a Congress for the New Urbanism award.
- Historic Hotels of America named it Best Historic Hotel among properties with more than 400 guest rooms in 2024.
- The 1912 generator hall holds Kessler's mineral and fossil collection under a 135-foot chrome replica of Amphicoelias fragillimus, named Ms. Chromina Joule.
History
JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District occupies the centerpiece of Savannah’s revived riverfront entertainment complex, but its story begins as an industrial landmark. The site’s Power Plant building traces to 1912, when Riverside Station was built to help meet the electricity demands of a growing modern city, and the hotel’s PDF source describes the building as a repurposed power plant transformed through an innovative renovation in the 2010s. The larger Plant Riverside District opened in 2020 as a mixed-use redevelopment on the Savannah River, pairing the hotel with restaurants, retail, live music venues, art galleries, and exhibits that reinterpret the old industrial campus for contemporary use. According to the district’s official site, the property now comprises three distinct JW Marriott hotel buildings — the Power Plant, Three Muses, and Atlantic — each with a different design character. The redevelopment has been recognized repeatedly for preservation and urban design. In 2021, Plant Riverside District received awards from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, Historic Savannah Foundation, and the Congress for the New Urbanism; the district’s news page also lists a 2023 Historic Savannah Foundation Preservation Award and a Georgia Trust Excellence in Rehabilitation Award. By 2024, the property had also been named Best Historic Hotel in the Historic Hotels of America awards for properties with more than 400 guest rooms. Rather than erasing the site’s industrial past, the project turned it into a public-facing riverfront destination where history, architecture, and hospitality are tightly interwoven.
The setting
JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District occupies 500 West River Street, inhabiting the bones of Riverside Station — a 1912 power plant whose 176-foot smokestacks anchored Savannah's skyline for nearly a century before its 2005 decommissioning. Kessler Collection's $270 million adaptive reuse project reopened the site in 2020 as the city's most transformative riverside development, earning Historic Hotels of America status by 2022. Three architecturally distinct buildings rise above the river; guests are eleven minutes on foot from the Olde Pink House, twelve from the Telfair Museums, and thirteen from the SCAD Museum of Art, while River Street's cobblestone promenade and the MLK Riverfront Park unfold directly outside.
Restaurants and bars
- Savannah Tequila Co — Restaurant · Mexican
- Myrtle & Rose Rooftop Bar — Restaurant
- District Seafood — Restaurant · Seafood
- Turbine Market + Cafe — Restaurant
- Riverside Biergarten — Restaurant
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
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