Hyatt House The Woodlands - Shenandoah

About the property

Hyatt House The Woodlands – Shenandoah, part of Metropark Square, reimagines the extended-stay hotel as a social, residential-feeling community rather than a standard corridor of guest rooms. The property is steps from The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Market Street, and The Woodlands Mall, and within easy reach of major regional employers, including ExxonMobil, Anadarko, and McKesson, along with area medical centers such as Texas Children's Hospital, St. Luke's Health, and Houston Methodist Hospital.

The hotel's 148 guestrooms are built around a residential floor plan rather than a traditional hotel layout: contemporary Studios, One- and Two-Bedroom Kitchen Suites, and Den Guestrooms designed to feel like apartments. Shared spaces carry the same philosophy, including a Lounge styled after a modern living room, an adjacent H BAR and Social Sectional, and additional multi-purpose indoor and outdoor social areas.

The Challenge

Hyatt House's extended-stay model asks more of its door hardware than a typical hotel floor plan. Guests often stay for weeks at a time, so every guestroom door, connecting door, and common-area opening needed to hold up to residential-style daily use as well as high-turnover hospitality traffic, without looking or feeling institutional. At the same time, the project needed hardware that would clear Hyatt's brand construction standards, work across every door type in the building from guest suites to housekeeping and utility rooms, and be sourced through a single distributor to keep the project on schedule for a 2021 opening.

That combination, contemporary residential aesthetic, commercial-grade durability, and brand approval, across every opening in a 148-suite property, is the specification challenge PDQ was brought in to solve.

Sourcing all five product categories from one manufacturer let the project team standardize on a single key system across the property rather than reconciling hardware from multiple vendors room type by room type, and gave Hyatt's brand-standards review one consistent hardware package to approve.