Developer Simon Baron Development owner of the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles plans to secure financing for the project by the end of the year, with construction beginning shortly after. Work is expected to be complete by October 2021.
 
The Cecil located at: 640 S Main Street also known as The Stay on Main, sits just off Seventh and Main streets. Built in 1924, it holds 299 hotel rooms and 301 single-room occupancy residences.  The redevelopment would see the hotel rooms and SRO units refurbished. 30 would be removed to make way for new hotel amenities, with a targeted completion date of October 2021. The units will be replaced off-site.
 
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Construction continues on a full service JW Marriott Hotel in Uptown Charlotte North Carolina which plans to open in April 2021. That 320,000-plus-square-foot-hotel is part of Ally Charlotte Center, located at the corner of Stonewall and College streets and includes 381 guestrooms and 15,000 sf of meeting space. HKS Inc is the project architect. DPR Construction is the general contractor. Crescent Communities and White Lodging are developing the 22 story hotel project. Terry Dammeyer is president of White Lodging.  
 
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A developer planning a five-story boutique hotel at the northwest corner of German Village in Columbus Ohio. The proposed 135-room hotel, The McGown, at 33 E. Livingston Ave., will be built with brick, glass and stainless steel that would evoke a texture similar to that of the slate roofs in German Village The project is being proposed by Michael Casey who is principal at developer Wickford Holdings. The hotel would also have 139 underground parking spaces. The project would cost between $30 million and $35 million.
The German Village Commission, which reviews projects to see if they comply with neighborhood architectural guidelines, will be taking up the project at its Oct. 1 meeting. Moody-Nolan Architects is designing the project.
 
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The Langham Hotel, Boston is closed for a 120,000-square-foot renovation. The building, located at 250 Franklin St., was the original location of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Shawmut Design and Construction, Dyer Brown Architects and Richmond International are working to complete the project. The renovation includes all 312 guest rooms and eight two-floor loft suites, as well as the multi-room Chairman’s Suite, which features a living and dining room, pantry and piano. The project team is also adding a lobby bar and restaurant, two ballrooms and a Club Lounge — an eighth-floor private club space created by demolishing five guest rooms. 
The hotel’s restaurant will also be completely redone while maintaining its historical charm and original brass Federal Reserve seal embedded into the terrazzo flooring. The hotel is owned and managed by Langham Hospitality Group a global hotel company with more than 30 properties located in major cities over four continents. The hotel will to reopen in 2020 when the renovation is completed.
 
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IP Capital Partners of Boca Raton and GEM Realty Capital Inc. of Chicago plan to start a major renovation of the 444 guestroom Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay and adjacent 11 story Bayport Plaza office building. Jason Isaacson is IP Capital’s president.
 
IP Capital intends to expand the Rocky Point/Westshore Business District hotel’s 33,000 square feet of meeting space and upgrade the 265,976-square-foot office building’s lobby, bathrooms and common areas through a heavy capital investment. The project will integrate the two properties through a capital investment and by leveraging the components that are already there and create a homogeneous hospitality and concierge high-touch experience so the hotel will play off the office space and visa-versa, integrating the components of each to create a better whole.
 
Bayport Plaza, completed in 1984, is currently 92% occupied. The Grand Hyatt was completed two years later. The waterfront hotel’s current amenities include a trio of food and beverage outlets, a pair of tennis courts, a 24-hour fitness center and a resort-style swimming pool. The project is currently is a planning phase and will start in 2020.
 
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A Knoxville-based development company’s plans for a hotel in Gulch has been approved.
The eight-story, dual-branded hotel would offer a collective 214 rooms and 164 parking spaces in a structured garage at 602 Ninth Ave South Nashville, Tennessee. The two hotels, a Tru by Hilton and a Hampton Inn — would share 650 square feet of meeting space, a fitness center and a swimming pool.
 
Sachchidanand Hotel Gulch LLC an affiliate of The 9 Group is developing the project. The Metro Development and Housing Agency Design Review Committee approved the concept Tuesday, with the owners needing to return for further approvals.
Gatlinburg based Trotter De Foe Architects & Franklin based Civil & Environmental
Consultants Inc are designing the project.  
 
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Rochester’s Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously voted to support the proposal for building a 138-room Hampton Inn & Suites on the northeast corner of Second Street Northwest and Fifth Avenue in Rochester Minnesota. Collin Nash, with North Rock Real Estate is developing the project.
 
The hotel plans to have 105 parking spaces with the single access point on Fifth Avenue with added landscaping and more detailed exterior lighting and signs. The Rochester City Council will review the preliminary plan with another public hearing on Oct. 21. The project will also face added review after final plans are developed. Construction will begin the first half of 2020 with completion planned for mid-2021.
 
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The owner of the former Rodeway Inn property on the Mohawk Trail is planning to build a new hotel and retail shops with construction to start next spring.
 
Developer Shardool Parmar of Pioneer Valley Hotel Group, owns five hotels in Western Massachusetts with three in Hadley, one in Springfield and one in Ludlow plans to build a Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott on the Mohawk Trail site in Greenfield Massachusetts.
Demolition of the Rodeway Inn building began last fall and was completed earlier this year.   The proposed 90-room Fairfield Inn hotel and be run by Pioneer Valley Hotel Group
 
The development will also have 8,500 square feet of retail space closest to Route 2, and the hotel rooms will be attached but toward the back of the property. There is a deal for a Dunkin Donuts drive-thru and a local bank branch. The project is expected to cost about $14 million.
 
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Property developer Zephyr submitted a plan this week for a hotel, homes, offices, retail stores and outdoor attractions including a wave lagoon for surfing on the old Oceanside Drive-In Theaters property. The property is just east of the city’s airport along the San Luis Rey River, north of state Route 76 and Mission Avenue, and a few blocks west of El Camino Real in Oceanside California.
 
Plans call for the hotel, a conference center, 100,000 square feet of retail stores and restaurants, 20,000 square feet of office space, the wave lagoon, and rock climbing walls, bike trails, fitness center, yoga pavilion, a spa and other commercial aspects of the project to be completed along with the first 200 residential units. Residential units also will be a mixture of types in attached buildings such as town homes, condominiums, rentals and branded units linked to the active-lifestyle theme of the development. About 20 acres of the property will be preserved as open space. The site will include bike trails and pedestrian paths with connections to the nearby San Luis Rey River trail and Alex Road Skate Park.
 
The company also is building the Solana 101 mixed-use development on Coast Highway in Solana Beach, and is working on approvals for a resort hotel atop 16 acres of coastal bluffs at the northern edge of Del Mar. The Del Mar plan will include a 65-room hotel, 31 villas, a spa, walking trails and gardens.
 
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A new 82-room, 5 start luxury waterfront resort, called Sunset Cove is planned along the Lake Norman shoreline in Mooresville, North Carolina. It will include a 3,000-square foot spa, private beach, pool, a 4,000-square-foot conference center and an Italian steakhouse restaurant.
 
Brett Krueger, Vice President of MRK Investments, is leading the development. He plans to build condos near the resort in later phases of the project. The exact address is 195 Sunset Cove Lane. The Mooresville Planning Department has approved the resort, but some of the details like utility plans are still in the works.
 
The spa will include a 3,000-square-foot facility will have a salt/relaxation room, mineral pool, juice bar and an outdoor relaxation area with typical spa offerings like massages and other wellness treatments. The spa itself will have five hotel rooms, and those guests will have prolonged direct access to the spa amenities. A restaurant, yet-to-be-named local restaurant will run the resort’s steakhouse along with an Italian restaurant with Lake Norman views. The beach club with direct access to the beach is included for guests, but non-guests can use the beach club for a fee.
 
All 82 rooms will have views of the water, and the design is inspired by resorts in the Mediterranean and Bali with greenery and water features throughout to tie in some of the natural elements of the lake setting. The project is planned to break ground in the first quarter of 2020.
 
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