A proposed 194-room Hilton hotel along the Dallas North Tollway won't move forward yet after the Prosper Town Council sent the project back to the Planning and Zoning Commission on Tuesday, July 28, citing concerns about adding more extended-stay rooms in town.

The project would combine a 100-room Hilton Garden Inn with a 94-room Homewood Suites by Hilton in a single building, sharing amenities including meeting space, a fitness center, a restaurant and bar, and laundry facilities, according to Community Impact reporting and town documents. Each brand would have a separate breakfast area.

Full-service hotels are permitted in Prosper by right. Extended-stay hotels require a special use permit.

The delay marks the second time the council has returned the Hilton project to the P&Z Commission. The council first sent it back on April 28 for further review of the extended-stay component, then approved the special use permit 6-1 on May 19 after the P&Z Commission reversed its earlier opposition and voted 4-1 in favor on May 5. The P&Z Commission had initially voted against the project at its March 25 meeting.

What changed between the May 19 approval and the July 28 referral back is not fully clear from available records. The July 28 meeting also included a public hearing on new Unified Development Code standards for dual-brand hotels in the Dallas North Tollway Overlay District, suggesting the council may be reconsidering the project in light of those updated rules.

At the May 19 meeting, Director of Development Services David Hoover described the hotel as functionally similar to a traditional property. "The property itself is one building," Hoover said at the time. "It's really not that different from a [full-service] hotel that has suites."

Hilton representative Whitney Knight has said the extended-stay portion targets business travelers, who make up over 60 percent of Homewood Suites guests nationally, with demand expected from nearby PGA Frisco. Project representative Wes Hoblit has said the average stay would be four days, with rooms priced at $200 to $300 per night.

The debate reflects a broader tension in Prosper's Tollway corridor planning. Mayor David Bristol said in April, during discussion of the Prosper Arts District development, that "multifamily residential development along the Tollway should be the exception rather than the norm," positioning the six-mile corridor for commercial and hospitality uses. As we reported July 30, the council adopted binding development standards for the corridor at the same July 28 meeting.

The Planning and Zoning Commission's next regular meeting is Tuesday, August 4, at 6:30 p.m. at Prosper Town Hall, 250 W. First Street. Whether the Hilton project appears on that agenda has not been confirmed.