Downtown San Antonio, which already has 11,000 hotel rooms, has five new properties that will add another 2,000 rooms by 2008.
That’s in contrast with 2001, when a PFK Consulting report found the city added the fewest rooms among all Texas markets.
San Antonio recently had a record second quarter in hotel rooms booked.
The first new property in the recent wave of building is the 265-room Hotel Contessa due to open in November. It’s all all-suite property overlooking River Walk.
The biggest new hotel planned for the area is the 1,000-room Convention Center Hotel, a Hyatt Corp. property.
The 34-story hotel is scheduled to be complete in 2008.
Said Janis Schmees, acting executive director of the San Antonio Convention & Visitors Bureau:
“This most recent increase in hotel development will result in a more competitive overall package when pursuing convention business.”
Report by David Wilkening
