Le Méridien New Orleans is a 23-story high-rise building in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. The building rises 279 feet (85 m), and is currently tied with Charity Hospital as the 29th-tallest building in the city. It also stands as the 8th-tallest hotel in New Orleans.
The hotel was designed with a modern architecture style by architectural firm DMJM and was opened in 1984 as the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza[1] to accommodate crowds attending the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition. It became the Four Points by Sheraton Downtown in the late 1990s and then the W New Orleans Hotel in 2000.[2]
The hotel was significantly damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Half of the hotel's rooms had their windows blown out.[3]
In April 2013 it was sold to Chesapeake Lodging Trust for $65 million.[4] On July 15, 2014, the hotel was given the temporary name Hotel New Orleans Downtown while it underwent a $29 million renovation.[5] It became the Le Méridien New Orleans on December 15, 2014.[6][7] In 2019, Park Hotels & Resorts, which had acquired Chesapeake Lodging Trust, sold the hotel to Stonebridge Companies and Walton Street Capital for $84 million.[8][9]
The building houses a 4-star Le Méridien with 423 guest rooms.
See also
- List of tallest buildings in New Orleans
- Buildings and architecture of New Orleans
External links
References
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- Anthony McAuley. Le Meridien New Orleans sold by Park Resorts for $84M to consortium The Times-Picayune, January 8, 2020, retrieved January 17, 2020^
- Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. announces the sale of the Le Meridien New Orleans Park Hotels & Resorts, December 23, 2019, retrieved 2020-01-18^