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The hotel in October 2014. Marriott Marquis Washington, DC is a luxury hotel located on Massachusetts Avenue NW, in NW, Washington, D.C., United States.The hotel is connected to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center across 9th Street NW via an underground concourse and receives significant business from convention attendees.
In 2006, the Council of the District of Columbia approved legislation naming the then-Washington Convention Center in honor of the city's first home rule mayor, the late Walter E. Washington. [4] In 2008, the WCSA Board of Directors agreed to expand the newly built convention center by 75,000 square feet (7,000 m 2). [5]
Events DC is the official convention, sports and entertainment authority for the District of Columbia. Events DC is a quasi-public company based in Washington, D.C. that owns and manages the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, CareFirst Arena, the RFK Stadium Campus, and Nationals Park among other DC venues. It also promotes, sponsors and ...
The Washington Marriott Wardman Park was a hotel on Connecticut Avenue next to the Woodley Park station of the Washington Metro in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The hotel had 1,152 rooms, 195,000 square feet (18,100 m 2) of event space, and 95,000 square feet (8,800 m 2) of exhibit space. It opened in 1918 and closed in 2020.
The hotel's architect was David Childs, the head of the Washington, D.C., office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. [3] [4] Boston Properties entered into an agreement to have the Hyatt Hotels Corporation manage the hotel, and to brand it as a luxury Park Hyatt. Ground for the hotel was broken on October 31, 1984. [5]
The center was originally named the Gaylord Potomac Resort & Convention Center; the name was changed in the planning stage. The hotel contains 2,000 guest rooms, 95 event rooms, 537,430 square feet (49,929 m 2) of meeting space, seven restaurants, and a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) spa. It employs 2,000 people.
[28] [29] On the south side is the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel (opened 1986), and the Techworld plaza office development (opened 1989), [2] which is undergoing redevelopment and re-branding as "Anthem Row." [30] Across from the northwest corner of the square is the Washington Marriott Marquis, the largest hotel in the city, which opened in ...
Following a 2006 buyout and extensive renovation, the property reopened in 2008 as the 317-room W Washington D.C. [4] In 2021 the building was sold, ending its franchise with W Hotels and reverting to an independent Hotel Washington. [5]