Feb. 18–Construction will start soon on a luxury hotel in the commercial district of The Woodlands to help serve the growing number of business and leisure travelers who visit the master-planned community north of Houston.
The 303-room property will have 24,000 square feet of meeting space, a fine-dining restaurant, and a second-level pool deck and bar overlooking a public plaza. It also will include a pedestrian bridge crossing The Waterway and a performance stage at Waterway Square. Elkus Manfredi of Boston and Gensler are the architects.
“There is a tremendous need for additional first-class hotel rooms in The Woodlands, with over 20 million people visiting The Woodlands Town Center each year,” Paul Layne, executive vice president of master-planned communities for the Howard Hughes Corp., said in a statement last week.
Some 50,000 people work in the community, many of them in the Waterway commercial area. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. just developed a second office tower there, and other energy and financial companies lease space in the office buildings along the water.
The Woodlands Development Co., a subsidiary of the Dallas-based Howard Hughes Corp., said it is finalizing negotiations on the hotel brand.
The entire project is expected to be completed in mid-2015.
