Omni Hotels & Resorts will build a 1,000-room headquarters hotel across the street from New Orleans’ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, following the convention center authority’s approval ...

New Orleans has the only major convention center in the country with no attached hotel, they've argued, which puts the city at a disadvantage when pitching for big conventions and other gatherings. +3 ...

The hotel has faced financing questions due to property and sales tax exemptions and other subsidies in its financing package. In late 2019, Convention Center officials announced newly-negotiated ...

Last month, Convention Center CEO Michael Sawaya told our editorial board that building a new hotel next to the 1.1 million-square-foot facility that sits along the Mississippi River in downtown ...

The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority has approved the development of an Omni hotel across the street from the convention center.. Omni will own and operate the 1,000-room ...

Omni Hotels Corporation is expected to begin development of a new headquarters hotel in New Orleans following unanimous approval by the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority.

He said the new hotel, which will be built at the upriver end of the ¾-mile-long Convention Center, "will effectively make New Orleans a much more desirable destination for back-to-back conventions." ...

Rendering courtesy of the New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority. House Bill 617 effectively clears the way for Convention Center officials to move ahead with negotiating a contract to build the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Officials voted to move forward with purchasing a site adjacent to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in Downtown New Orleans that they said would eventually become home ...

In late May, the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Convention Center Authority approved two proposals that were necessary to develop a 1,000-room headquarters hotel at the center, including a letter of ...

Last month, Convention Center CEO Michael Sawaya told our editorial board that building a new hotel next to the 1.1 million-square-foot facility that sits along the Mississippi River in downtown ...