As part of a $23 million renovation that begins this month, the Baton Rouge Marriott is planning to overhaul its restaurant and bar area. Hotel manager Ralph Ney says details are still being finalized, but plans call for partnering with a third-party operator or outside chef to develop a destination restaurant with an oyster bar and upscale wine list.
“It’s going to be an extensive renovation,” he says. “We’ll also be creating a new entrance for the restaurant.”
Dimensions Development, a Natchitoches-based hotel management company, and a New York investor acquired the high-rise Marriott hotel off Interstate-10 near College Drive in late April for $21.8 million and immediately announced plans for the renovation.
At the time, the new owners said the hotel might have to close while work is being done, but Ney now says the 21-story hotel will remain open and that construction will take place on two floors at a time, with a third floor as a buffer.
The project is expected to be completed by September.
See a rendering of the new guest room.
—Stephanie Riegel
