If your idea of a dream hotel stay involves John Deere tractors, the new Courtyard Marriott in Waterloo might be just the thing for you.

Opened in December 2017, the 191-room hotel is part of a $74-million development project at Cedar Valley TechWorks campus riverfront development. The hotel occupies the former manufacturing building of John Deere’s Waterloo plant and opens just in time for Deere’s 100th anniversary this year.

 TechWorks President Cary Darrah is excited about the property. “We’ve been working on the Marriott Courtyard project,...