After the Cowboys football season ends this fall, a key University of Wyoming Plaza fixture across the street from War Memorial Stadium will close for 18 months.

But when it returns as the university’s Class of 2027 prepares to graduate, the Hilton Garden Inn in Laramie will have rebranded itself as the UW-themed Graduate by Hilton Laramie, a whimsical rework and upgrade of the campus hotel.

The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to supporting humanitarian works worldwide, owns the hotel and is reimagining the property as an over-the-top UW utopia.

It’ll have a western theme and UW’s signature brown and gold, and will become one of three of Pulte’s “humanitarian hotels.”

Foundation Chief Operating Officer Kevin Doyle said the segue from Hilton Garden Inn to

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