As with entertainment and fashion, Los Angeles continues to be a trendsetter when it comes to new hotels. With about 50 hotels totaling more than 8,000 rooms either under construction or in late-planning stages in areas such as Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood and Santa Monica, Greater Los Angeles will offer a veritable Fall Collection of new lodging options for its visitors, including newer brands such as Dream and Freehand. While dates are subject to change, read on for a preview of highly anticipated L.A. hotels opening over the next few years.
Aloft El Segundo - Los Angeles Airport is L.A.'s first hotel under Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ boutique lifestyle brand. Located about two miles south of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), the hotel will feature 246 rooms and 14,000 square feet of meeting space.
Hilton Worldwide will add Glendale’s first hotel under the Hampton Inn & Suites brand this summer. Hampton Inn & Suites Glendale will have 94 rooms when it opens on Brand Boulevard.
Marriott International’s upscale Residence Inn debuts in Pasadena proper in July. Residence Inn Pasadena Old Town will have 144 rooms and will be located on Fair Oaks Avenue, three blocks north of Old Town’s bustling Colorado Boulevard.
Marriott’s Courtyard by Marriott Santa Monica is slated to open near the western terminus of the Metro Rail Expo Line and feature 134 rooms.
Burbank’s first Hilton Garden Inn will open on San Fernando Boulevard with 209 rooms.
Choice Hotels International’s upscale Cambria badge will enter the Los Angeles area with the opening of Cambria El Segundo LAX. Slated to open this fall, the hotel will be developed by Fillmore Hospitality and feature 152 rooms and a bistro called Social Circle. The hotel will be located about two miles south of Los Angeles International Airport.
The Dream Hotels boutique-luxury brand is scheduled to open on Hollywood’s “Cahuenga Corridor” this fall. Dream Hotel Group’s (formerly Hampshire Hotels Management) local outpost will have 179 rooms, an 11,000-square-foot rooftop lounge area and a Mid-Century-Modern decor designed by New York-based Rockwell Group.
The 171-room Hampton Inn & Suites LAX El Segundo will debut on Sepulveda Boulevard near the southern edge of Los Angeles International Airport.
Hilton Worldwide’s Hampton Inn & Suites Santa Monica will have 143 rooms. The hotel will be near the intersection of Colorado Avenue and 5th Street, about four blocks east of the historic Santa Monica Pier.
A 112-room property under Hilton Worldwide’s Hampton Inn & Suites brand will open in Hollywood on Vine Street near Santa Monica Boulevard this fall.
Sydell Group is introducing its Freehand hotel/hostel brand to Los Angeles. The Freehand, which has properties in Miami Beach and Chicago and includes private rooms as well as hostel accommodations, will be built at the site of the Commercial Exchange Building at 8th and Olive Streets. The property will include 226 rooms as well as a rooftop pool when it opens at the end of the year.
Denihan Hospitality Group’s James luxury brand will make its West Coast debut later this year as part of CIM Group’s Sunset La Cienega mixed-use project in West Hollywood. The James Los Angeles will total 286 rooms and will include two restaurants, a rooftop bar and about 10,000 square feet of meeting space. The project will also have a 190-unit residential building and about 40,000 square feet of retail space.
Celebrity chef Nobu Matsuhisa is taking over the old Casa Malibu and repurposing it as a ryokan, or traditional Japanese inn. The beachfront property, which is owned by tech magnate Larry Ellison, will have 18 rooms when it opens at the end of the year.
Hilton Worldwide’s upscale Hilton Garden Inn brand will add the 133-room Hilton Garden Inn El Monte on Valley Boulevard.
Proper Hotels, the new brand headed by former Viceroy Hotels chief Brad Korzen, is slated to enter Los Angeles with a Downtown L.A. property located at the site of the former Case Hotel. The 13-story property, which was built in 1924, will have 145 rooms as well as a rooftop that includes a restaurant, bar and pool.
China-based Greenland Group is developing Metropolis, a $1 billion mixed-use project located just east of the Harbor Freeway in Downtown L.A. Metropolis will include an 18-story, 350-room hotel under InterContinental Hotels Group’s Hotel Indigo brand.
The InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown will be part of the tallest U.S. building west of the Mississippi River when the Wilshire Grand Center opens in 2017. The 900-room hotel will include a “sky lobby” on the 70th floor. The $1.1 billion project, which is being developed by Korean Air and Hanjin Group, will also include 400,000 square feet of offices and 45,000 square feet of retail space. When completed, Wilshire Grand Center will be about 80 feet taller than the U.S. Bank Tower.
The Los Angeles area’s first hotel under Hilton Worldwide’s Waldorf Astoria luxury brand will open on the triangular corner next to the Beverly Hilton. The newly-built property, with Streamline Moderne design influences, will be 12 stories tall and will have 170 rooms.
Sydell Group, which opened The Line Hotel in Koreatown in 2014, will open the Los Angeles outpost of New York’s NoMad Hotel next winter. The NoMad will be redeveloped out of Downtown L.A.’s Giannini Place, which was built in 1923 as the headquarters for Bank of Italy (which became Bank of America). The 12-story hotel will have about 250 rooms as well as a rooftop pool.
The first U.S. West Coast property under Marriott International and Ian Schrager’s Edition lifestyle brand will open on the famed Sunset Strip in West Hollywood in 2018. Developed by the Witkoff Group and New Valley, the hotel will have 190 rooms and as many as 20 luxury condominiums. The hotel will boast two rooftop pools.
Oceanwide Plaza, the mixed-use project slated for South Park’s Flower Street, will include a 183-room hotel. The hotel, which was previously reported to be named for and branded after Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, will be in a 49-story tower that will also include 164 condominiums and more than 150,000 square feet of retail space.
New York-based Chetrit Group is redeveloping a 113-year-old building on Downtown L.A.’s Hill Street between Pershing Square and Angels Flight into a boutique property. The redeveloped property will have 347 rooms.
Pendry, the Montage Hotels & Resorts brand that’s slated to debut in San Diego later this year, will make its L.A.-area entry when the modern-luxury hotel is built at the Sunset Strip site formerly occupied by the House of Blues.
The 102-year-old Trinity Auditorium on Grand Avenue in Downtown L.A. will be redeveloped into a hotel with 183 rooms as well as a ballroom and a rooftop pool deck.
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