Ace Hotel plans to add New Orleans location | New Orleans City Business

A project underway to redevelop a former office building downtown into a new hotel property will open next year under the Ace Hotel brand, the company announced Tuesday.

The Portland, Oregon hotel chain confirmed it would  open a 234-room Ace Hotel in the nine-story Art Deco office building at 600 Carondelet St. A $34 million construction project began last fall and is expected to wrap up in early 2016.

The project is being developed by the Domain Companies, which is also building the $250 million South Market District project nearby. Domain purchased the 136,000-square-foot building and an adjacent parking lot in 2013 for $5.5 million and announced development of an unnamed hotel soon after.

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