MSPeconomist

AC Minneapolis West End opened about a week ago. It's a new build, maybe eight stories, at the interestction of I-394 and MN 100 in the suburb of St Louis Park, about five miles west of downtown Minneapolis. It's on the far eastern end of the West End "neighborhood" while has an extended stay Hilton property (Homewood Suites IIRC), some chain restaurants, office buildings, apartments, movie theaters, and a bunch of mostly small independent shops arranged in an outdoor "street/village" format rather than an enclosed mall, but there is an enclosed free parking garage for the commercial area. IMO the whole neighborhood is largely targeted toward millennials, albeit less so for the hotels. The hotel itself seems to have its own outdoor parking lot.

Other AC hotels in Minnesota are located in downtown Minneapolis and next to the Mall of America; the latter is an airport hotel and has a free airport shuttle (with a light rail station and the Mall of America both within about a block), while the downtown one is about two blocks from a light rail station. IMO West End would be impractical without a car although most of the West End development restaurants are within walking distance; it's about 20 miles from the airport using expressways that are very congested.