Mike Wampold announced Tuesday morning that a Marriott Renaissance hotel, the largest in Baton Rouge, will occupy the site of the unfinished Swaggart Ministry dorms he owns on Bluebonnet. Work will start on the 348-room resort in August-September, and it should be completed in a year. The $64 million hotel will include a restaurant operated by Dickie Brennan, along with a 20,000-square-foot conference center and a state-of-the-art fitness center. GO Zone financing is being used to build the hotel. According to previous filings with the Louisiana Public Facilities Authority, the hotel is expected to hire 240 people. Wampold bought the property in late 2004 for $2.1 million. Work had stopped on the dorm in 1989, when allegations of sex scandals caused funding for Swaggart's ministry to dry up. For a rendering of how the hotel will look, click here. (Seth Fox)
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