“The hotel industry in Detroit for a long time has been viewed as very stagnant and has not shown a lot of freshness or innovation,” Larson said. There also are a growing number of alternative lodgings in the city.Įric Larson, CEO of the civic group Downtown Detroit Partnership, said the growing number of new hotels in the greater downtown is another sign of Detroit's continued turnaround and an important part of the city’s comeback. ► Related: Upscale retailer to open boutique hotel in Detroit's Midtown ► Related: Shinola Hotel to open in downtown Detroit in 2018 They include the Shinola Hotel, Element Hotel, Wurlitzer Hotel, West Elm Hotel, Detroit Fountain Hotel, and an unnamed “athletes’ hotel” near the new Little Caesars hockey arena. The last hotel to open downtown was the Aloft Detroit in 2014, transforming the historic David Whitney Building near Grand Circus Park. But several new boutique hotels with a total of 916 rooms are either under way or on the drawing board for 2017 and beyond. Four downtown hotels are AAA-rated four-diamond properties: the MGM Grand Detroit, Westin Book Cadillac, Motor City Casino Hotel and the Greektown Casino Hotel, which was added to the list in October.

Detroit has about 5,000 hotel rooms downtown, up from about 3,000 10 years ago, the CVB estimates.

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