Wyndham hotel in Springfield appears to be leaving hotel business

The future of the Wyndham City Center as a hotel could be in doubt after the Springfield City Council Tuesday rebuffed a variance for a zoning proposal for a New York-based company to buy the downtown hotel.

The current owner of the Wyndham, Springfield’s tallest building at 30 stories, insisted its hotel rooms would go away as a result of the vote.

The possible disappearance of 370 downtown hotel rooms would put the city in a lurch as conventions appear to pick up after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The plan to sell the Wyndham to GoodHomes, which had plans to install