The 206-room hotel Pinnacle Entertainment is building at its L’Auberge Casino in Baton Rouge is the 10th largest hotel project to start construction in the U.S. this year. Lodging Econometrics, which compiled the list, says through the first half of the year, construction has begun on nearly 24,600 rooms. That’s far off the boom-time peak of 40,000 hotel room construction starts per quarter in 2007 and 2008. The biggest single hotel project to start in 2011 is the 1,167-room Washington Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C., reports The Wall Street Journal. L’Auberge Casino & Hotel is set to open in summer 2012.
L’Auberge hotel makes list of biggest U.S. projects
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