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Tampa, Florida

The James Hotel West Tampa

A century-old West Tampa cigar factory, long abandoned, is being reborn as a roughly 70-room design-driven boutique hotel.

Boutique / Upscale · 70 rooms

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Hyatt Centric Winnipeg Downtown

Western Canada's first Hyatt Centric, built inside a reclaimed downtown office tower.

Upscale/Lifestyle · 140 rooms

Richmond, Virginia

Dear John

A Pulitzer-winning novelist's 1841 Greek Revival mansion, reborn as a 12-room hotel from Richmond's best-known dessert shop.

Boutique · 12 rooms

Orlando, Florida

Nickelodeon Hotels & Resorts Orlando

Paramount licenses the Nickelodeon brand to a two-tower, 543,000-square-foot family resort in Kissimmee, pairing 211 hotel rooms with 181 condo units sleeping up to twelve

Upscale · 211 rooms

Seattle, Washington

The Langham, Seattle Hotel & Residences

Kengo Kuma reimagines a 1916 Seattle landmark as Langham's Pacific Northwest debut.

Luxury · 187 rooms

Gold Coast, Queensland

Andaz Gold Coast

Hyatt's lifestyle brand debuts in Australia atop The Star's second tower.

Luxury · 202 rooms

Adelaide, South Australia

Veriu Adelaide

Adelaide's first Veriu turns 5,000 square metres of empty CBD office floors into self-catering studios built for stays longer than a weekend.

Upscale apartment-hotel / extended-stay · 111 rooms

Announced · 2026 (exact month not yet confirmed)

Adelaide, South Australia

The Westin Adelaide

A 33-storey glass tower rising directly out of a century-old Freemasons hall gives Adelaide its first true skyscraper hotel.

Upper-upscale · 236 rooms

Brisbane, Queensland

Dorsett Brisbane

The last unopened tower of the Queen's Wharf quartet, a 387-room 4.5-star hotel inside Brisbane's newest riverside precinct

Upscale (4.5-star) · 387 rooms

San Juan (Isla Verde), Puerto Rico

The Ritz-Carlton, San Juan

A storied Isla Verde landmark returns after a $150 million reimagining.

Luxury · 417 rooms

Announced · End of 2026 (targeted)

Cincinnati, Ohio

Hilton Garden Inn Cincinnati Downtown

A 130-room Hilton Garden Inn inside a former Procter & Gamble office tower, backed by $3.15 million in Ohio historic tax credits.

Upscale select-service — mainstream Hilton tier, not a boutique or lifestyle brand · 130 rooms

Dubai

Gran Meliá Dubai Jumeirah

Meliá's first UAE beachfront hotel rises on reclaimed land in Meraas' Port de La Mer, anchored by a Zuma and a Novikov

Ultra-luxury

Announced · 2026-2027

London, England

The Webster Covent Garden

A new Italian-inflected lifestyle hotel brand is launching its debut UK property on Lincoln's Inn Fields, with three separate dining and nightlife concepts — but as of August 2026, reservation pages show stays starting only in October, later than the brand's own July announcement.

Luxury lifestyle · 167 rooms

Miami, Florida

Virgin Hotels Miami

Virgin Hotels' first Florida outpost is rising as a 40-story Brickell tower pairing 250 hotel rooms with 150 branded residences — developer Blue Jay Capital's bet that Richard Branson's lifestyle brand can anchor Miami's Financial District, with a 2026 opening that has yet to get a firm date.

Upper-upscale lifestyle (Virgin Hotels brand) · 250 rooms

San Francisco, California

Rosewood San Francisco

Rosewood's ultra-luxury debut claims 15 floors of San Francisco's tallest new tower.

Luxury · 180 rooms

Glasgow, Scotland

Cheval Maison – West Regent

Cheval Collection's first Glasgow property, a conservation-area serviced-apartment scheme that has already slipped its opening twice.

Upscale apartment-hotel · 70 rooms

Abu Dhabi

Mondrian Abu Dhabi

Ennismore's lifestyle brand plans its UAE debut on the Abu Dhabi canal, after repeated delays

Upscale / Lifestyle · 221 rooms

Dubai

Baccarat Hotel & Residences Dubai

Twin Studio Libeskind towers bring the French crystal house's hotel brand to the UAE for the first time

Ultra-luxury · 144 rooms

Abu Dhabi

Nobu Hotel Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island

Nobu's Abu Dhabi hotel faces the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim across Saadiyat's Mamsha Beach

Ultra-luxury · 165 rooms

Announced · 2026-2027

New York, New York

Hotel Meta

A 51-story tower facing the Hudson River in Hudson Yards will open as a 379-room Tribute Portfolio hotel — Marx Development Group's answer to a project that has already survived a brand change and a construction slowdown.

Upscale / lifestyle (Tribute Portfolio) · 379 rooms

San Francisco, California

The Hearst Hotel, Auberge Resorts Collection

Roman and Williams reimagines San Francisco's landmark 1911 Hearst Building as a hotel.

Luxury · 150 rooms

Edmonton, Alberta

Alt+ Hotel Edmonton (Mackenzie Tower)

Loft-style stays climb a 34-storey tower in Edmonton's warehouse district.

Upscale · 156 rooms

Gold Coast, Queensland

The Ritz-Carlton, Gold Coast

A three-storey luxury low-rise anchors a A$480 million Gold Coast waterfront.

Luxury · 150 rooms

Raleigh, North Carolina

Oberlin Hotel

A boutique hotel names itself for the freedmen's village it now sits beside.

Upscale · 153 rooms

Los Angeles, California

Mama Shelter Downtown LA

Ennismore converts the Fashion District's Mart South Building into its second, and now only, Los Angeles Mama Shelter, targeted for 2026.

Upscale lifestyle · 149 rooms

Palm Springs, California

Palihotel Palm Springs

Palisociety's conversion of a shuttered Vagabond Inn motor lodge into a 116-room Palihotel, arriving as the brand joins Marriott's Design Hotels collection.

Boutique/lifestyle · 116 rooms

Inverness, Highland, Scotland

10 Huntly Street Boutique Hotel

Inverness's former Royal British Legion club is becoming a 19-room boutique hotel for about £1 million.

Boutique · 19 rooms

Announced · Late Summer 2026

Bristol, England

Hotel Gotham Bristol

Bristol's Guildhall and former law courts, shut since 2010, is being reborn as a maximalist Gotham hotel with a rooftop bar.

Luxury / Boutique · 75 rooms

Dallas, Texas

Moxy Dallas Uptown

Dallas gets its playful side: a 154-room Moxy anchoring a new 19-story tower on the McKinney Avenue nightlife strip.

Upscale / Lifestyle · 154 rooms

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Hotel Bardo Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh's Art Deco Gulf Tower reborn as a landmark luxury hotel.

Luxury · 130 rooms

Announced · Targeted late August 2026

Wolgan Valley, New South Wales

Emirates Wolgan Valley, a Ritz-Carlton Lodge

The world's first Ritz-Carlton Lodge, reborn from a shuttered Emirates conservation resort

Ultra-luxury / conservation lodge · 40 rooms

Announced · August 2026

Fresno, California

Courtyard by Marriott Fresno Downtown

Downtown Fresno's first full-service hotel in decades, next to the convention center.

Upscale · 144 rooms

Announced · August 2026

San Antonio, Texas

Aztec Hotel, San Antonio, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel

A 77-room boutique hotel rising above the Riverwalk's 1926 Aztec Theatre, its Mayan Revival movie-palace shell converted rather than replaced.

Boutique / Upscale · 77 rooms

Sydney, New South Wales

The Sebel Sydney Parramatta

Accor's extended-stay Sebel brand is opening a 51-suite, new-build hotel on Victoria Road in Parramatta, pairing self-check-in and residential-style studios with a rooftop bar and an all-day Italian restaurant in one of Western Sydney's fastest-growing districts.

Upper-upscale / extended-stay · 51 rooms

Announced · August 2026

London, England

The Shepherd Mayfair

A six-floor boutique hotel rising on the plot of Mayfair's oldest house, timed to open 1 September 2026

Luxury boutique · 82 rooms

Announced · September 1, 2026

Edinburgh, Scotland

Clayton Hotel Edinburgh, St Andrew Square

Dalata's zero-carbon flagship, restoring a vacant Category A-listed bank building on St Andrew Square

Upscale (4-star) · 172 rooms

Announced · H2 2026

Adelaide, South Australia

Little National Hotel Adelaide

Affordable-luxury specialist Little National heads west for the first time.

Upscale/Lifestyle · 237 rooms

Announced · September 1, 2026

Los Angeles, California

PUBLIC West Hollywood

Ian Schrager revives the Sunset Strip's original Standard Hotel site as democratic luxury.

Lifestyle · 137 rooms

Announced · September 16, 2026

Bath, England

Parade Hotel

Three Grade I listed Georgian townhouses on North Parade, restored by Providence Hotels into a 49-room boutique hotel with its own Courtyard Spa

Upscale/Boutique · 49 rooms

Raleigh, North Carolina

The Gables

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt restores the last operating motel on U.S. 1 into an 18-room boutique retreat in Raleigh's Mordecai neighborhood.

Boutique lifestyle · 18 rooms

Queenstown, Otago

Avani Queenstown

Minor Hotels' New Zealand flagship, waking up lakefront on Frankton Road.

Lifestyle / upscale

Savannah, Georgia

Recess Hotel & Club

A new lifestyle-hotel brand returns Savannah's 1913 Manger Building to hospitality after nearly five decades as offices

Luxury lifestyle · 221 rooms

Austin, Texas

bohème

A 20-room East Austin hotel where every suite is themed around a different strand of the city's culture.

Boutique/Luxury · 20 rooms

Announced · 1 September 2026

Dubai

Six Senses The Palm, Dubai

Six Senses' UAE debut is a 61-suite, SAOTA-designed resort on Palm Jumeirah's West Crescent

Ultra-luxury · 61 rooms

Los Angeles, California

Kali Hotel and Rooftop, Autograph Collection

The only hotel permitted at SoFi Stadium, built by Rams owner Stan Kroenke.

Lifestyle · 300 rooms

Miami, Florida

E11EVEN Club Hotel & Residences (Tower One)

Miami's most famous nightclub is building itself a 65-story hotel two blocks from the dance floor that made it famous.

Upscale lifestyle / nightlife-branded condo-hotel

London, England

Waldorf Astoria London – Admiralty Arch

Waldorf Astoria's UK debut restores a 1912 monument opposite Buckingham Palace.

Luxury · 114 rooms

Announced · Autumn 2026

London, England

The St. Regis London

St Regis makes its first UK entrance at the old Westbury site in Mayfair.

Luxury · 193 rooms

Announced · Autumn 2026

Hamilton, Ontario

Hyatt Place Hamilton McMaster Innovation Park

McMaster Innovation Park gets its first hotel, built for the researchers and conference-goers who fill it.

Upscale / Select-Service · 78 rooms

Kansas City, Missouri

River Market Hotel

The first hotel to open inside Kansas City's River Market neighborhood, built into a four-story 1880 building.

Boutique · 45 rooms

St. Louis, Missouri

Truitt St. Louis

An 1884 jewelry magnate's Lafayette Square mansion becomes an 8-room hotel, Truitt's first outpost beyond Kansas City.

Boutique / upscale · 8 rooms

Dallas, Texas

AC Hotel Dallas Uptown

A design-forward Marriott brand claims the smaller half of a new 19-story tower on the McKinney Avenue corridor, sharing the building with a 154-room Moxy next door.

Upscale / Lifestyle · 110 rooms

Portland, Oregon

The Mindaro, part of JdV by Hyatt

A design-led lifestyle hotel arriving on a new campus a few minutes from PDX.

Lifestyle/Boutique · 88 rooms

St. Louis, Missouri

AC Hotel St. Louis Downtown

A 1904 World's Fair-era hotel, vacant for nearly two decades, is being reborn as a 225-room AC Hotel.

Upscale/Lifestyle · 225 rooms

Hamilton, Ontario

Hyatt House Hamilton McMaster Innovation Park

Kitchen-equipped suites for the researchers, visiting faculty and contractors settling in at McMaster Innovation Park for weeks, not nights.

Upscale / Extended-Stay · 84 rooms

Raleigh, North Carolina

Hotel Indigo Raleigh

Raleigh's landmark round tower reopens as a 204-room boutique hotel in October.

Upscale · 204 rooms

Hobart, Tasmania

Adina Hobart

TFE Hotels' Adina Apartment Hotels brand debuts in Tasmania with a 48-key apartment tower beside Vibe Hobart

Upscale apartment-hotel · 48 rooms

Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale Golf Retreat at Troon North

A 26-suite stay-and-play enclave rising beside Troon North's Monument and Pinnacle courses, built for golfers rather than downtown visitors.

Luxury boutique (stay-and-play golf resort) · 26 rooms

Medina, Ohio

The Legacy Hotel, Tribute Portfolio

A five-story boutique hotel rising on Medina Square, bringing Marriott's Tribute Portfolio and three new restaurants to a small Ohio town's historic core.

Boutique/Upscale · 77 rooms

Palm Cove, Queensland

Hilton Palm Cove Cairns Resort & Spa

Hilton's beachside debut in Palm Cove, a refurbished 140-room resort near Cairns.

Upscale · 140 rooms

Vancouver, British Columbia

Park Hyatt Vancouver

The former Shangri-La becomes Hyatt's most ambitious Canadian debut

Luxury · 119 rooms

Indianapolis, Indiana

Kimpton Indianapolis (Odd Fellows Building)

IHG's Kimpton brand is converting Indianapolis's 1908 Odd Fellows tower — once the tallest building in Indiana — into a 167-room luxury boutique hotel.

Luxury boutique · 167 rooms

New Orleans, Louisiana

The Warbler Hotel

A Jazz Age-inspired conversion of the old Trolly Stop Cafe on St. Charles Avenue

Boutique / upscale · 58 rooms

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Lindsay House

Vacant 1950s office block reborn as a mid-century boutique hotel in Belfast

Boutique · 76 rooms

Announced · Late 2026 (expected, per developer)

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Manuka Hotel

A 192-room five-star hotel rising on Manuka's long-contested former Capitol Theatre site, with persistent but unconfirmed rumours of a Hilton operator.

Luxury · 192 rooms

Belfast, Northern Ireland

YOTEL Belfast

A £17m cabin-style newcomer aimed at Shaftesbury Square — if a sewer-capacity dispute doesn't delay it first.

Boutique / Lifestyle · 165 rooms

Tampa, Florida

The Inn at El Reloj

An 11-room inn rising above a restaurant and cigar lounge inside a restored 1910 Ybor City building, directly across from the historic El Reloj cigar factory.

Boutique · 11 rooms

Brisbane, Queensland

Rosewood Brisbane

Australia's only six-star hotel crowns the AU$3.6bn Queen's Wharf riverside precinct.

Luxury

Announced · Expected later in 2026

Perth, Western Australia

Radisson Perth at SCQ

Radisson's Western Australian debut anchors a new 'connected village' precinct in West Perth

Upscale · 120 rooms

Manchester

The Medlock, a Radisson Blu Hotel

A 401-room Radisson Blu built into Manchester City's Etihad Stadium, with ten pitch-side suites that double as hospitality boxes on match days.

Upper-upscale · 401 rooms

Dallas, Texas

The Knox

Auberge brings resort sensibility to the Knox Street district

Luxury · 140 rooms

Announced · Late 2026 (targeted)

Denver, Colorado

AC Hotel Denver Gateway Park

A 146-room AC Hotel under construction near Denver International Airport, financed by Voyage Capital Group with a construction loan that closed in mid-2025.

Upscale · 146 rooms

Dublin

Sofitel Dublin Airport

Accor's first Irish Sofitel rises directly onto Terminal 2 in a €100m-plus Arora Group development

Luxury · 412 rooms

Announced · Late 2026 (announced target)

Austin, Texas

The Blanco

MML Hospitality's first mixed-use development, inside a Herzog & de Meuron-designed mass-timber tower in Clarksville.

Luxury/Boutique · 57 rooms

Phoenix, Arizona

Denū Hotel & Spa

A 17-floor downtown Phoenix tower billed as the first downtown Phoenix hotel with a full-service spa

Luxury/Boutique · 236 rooms

Charlotte, North Carolina

The Beckworth Charlotte Uptown, Curio Collection by Hilton

A century-old Uptown office tower being reborn as its first-ever hotel, with a rooftop bar and two new restaurants from Charlotte's Built on Hospitality group.

Luxury / Boutique · 240 rooms

Adelaide, South Australia

Crystalbrook Sam

Crystalbrook's design-led five-star formula arrives in Adelaide for the first time.

Luxury · 196 rooms

Raleigh, North Carolina

The Oberlin Raleigh, Curio Collection by Hilton

A new-build boutique hotel in the Village District that names itself, deliberately, for Raleigh's Black Freedman history.

Upscale/Boutique · 153 rooms

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Tempo by Hilton Belfast City Centre

Hilton's fitness-focused Tempo brand makes its international debut in a converted 1970s office block.

Upscale / Lifestyle · 144 rooms

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

The Elm Hotel

A 140-room boutique hotel breaking ground inside The Half, a new north Oklahoma City lifestyle development.

Boutique/Upscale · 140 rooms

Miami, Florida

The Dean Miami

An Irish lifestyle group makes its US debut on South Beach's Collins Avenue.

Lifestyle · 235 rooms

Austin, Texas

Hotel Trinity, Autograph Collection

Downtown Austin's only Autograph Collection hotel, topped by a rooftop social club.

Luxury · 258 rooms

Cleveland, Ohio

W Cleveland

Ohio's first W anchors a $218M reinvention of the 1964 Erieview Tower.

Luxury · 210 rooms

Adelaide, South Australia

Treehouse Hotel Adelaide

Barry Sternlicht's Treehouse brand makes its Australian debut at Market Square.

Lifestyle · 248 rooms

Branson, Missouri

Silver Dollar City Resort

Herschend's first theme-park resort rises over the Ozarks and Table Rock Lake.

Upscale · 262 rooms

Announced · December 2026

London, England

The WestDill Mayfair Hotel London, Colbert Collection

Minor Hotels is converting a Grade II-listed former NatWest bank on Piccadilly into a 50-room five-star hotel, the UK debut of its new Colbert Collection soft brand.

Luxury / 5-star · 50 rooms

Announced · Q4 2026

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Chisholm Creek Hotel, Autograph Collection

Marriott's only planned boutique-lifestyle hotel in north Oklahoma City, from the team behind The National downtown.

Upscale/Lifestyle · 181 rooms

Announced · Q4 2026

Palmerston North, New Zealand

TRYP by Wyndham Palmerston North

Wyndham's design-led TRYP brand revives a derelict Edwardian post office.

Upscale · 86 rooms

Tucson, Arizona

Lodge on the Desert Tucson, Tapestry Collection by Hilton

Built in 1937 as a hacienda-style retreat and independently run for over eight decades, this Midtown Tucson landmark is converting to Hilton's Tapestry Collection following a $16 million acquisition by Atira Hotels.

Boutique/Upscale · 102 rooms

Announced · December 2026

San Diego, California

Le Méridien San Diego Pinnacle

A 39-story waterfront tower rising above downtown San Diego, topped by a rooftop pool and bar with views over the bay.

Upper-upscale / Lifestyle · 231 rooms

Announced · January 2027 (targeted)

Manchester, England

W Manchester

W Hotels makes its first move outside London inside Gary Neville and Salboy's 41-storey St Michael's tower, with 162 rooms due in early 2027.

Luxury lifestyle · 162 rooms

Announced · Q1 2027

Orlando, Florida

Kimpton Orlando

Kimpton's first Orlando hotel rises inside a new downtown sports district.

Lifestyle · 261 rooms

Phoenix, Arizona

Fairmont Phoenix

A 1930s hardware warehouse anchors a new 25-story tower in downtown Phoenix

Luxury · 225 rooms

Announced · Late 2027 / early 2028 (target)

Fresno, California

AC Hotel by Marriott Fresno River Park

Fresno's first 4-star hotel, rising as one half of the city's first dual-brand construction project near River Park.

Upscale (4-star) · 195 rooms

Melbourne, Victoria

Richmond Square Hotel

A 57-room hotel taking over the first two floors of Carmine House, built into Fortis's AU$330 million Richmond Square precinct so guests and the building's 107 residents share the same concierge, housekeeping and dining staff.

Premium lifestyle · 57 rooms

Announced · Q1 2027

Gold Coast, Queensland

LXR Hotels & Resorts Gold Coast

Hilton's ultra-luxury LXR brand is making its Australian debut on The Spit, taking over the building that opened as Palazzo Versace in 2000 and most recently traded as The Imperial Hotel.

Luxury · 200 rooms

Announced · Early 2027 (targeted)

Mesa, Arizona

Cambria Hotel Mesa

A 107-room Cambria is rising at the corner of Elliot and Ellsworth, betting that Mesa's data-center boom needs somewhere upscale to sleep.

Upscale · 107 rooms

York, England

room2 York

Lamington Group's net-zero room2 brand makes its Northern England debut.

Upscale · 116 rooms

Tampa, Florida

Pendry Tampa

Pendry's Florida debut pairs a five-star hotel with a 38-story condo tower.

Luxury · 220 rooms

Announced · Late 2027/early 2028

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Bindery

A historic book-bindery in Edinburgh's New Town, converted into Code Concepts' first boutique hotel

Design-led boutique · 84 rooms

Announced · Q1 2027

Fresno, California

AC Hotel Fresno River Park

Fresno's first four-star hotel is rising as a dual-brand tower shared with Element, with a rooftop lounge overlooking River Park.

Upscale/Lifestyle · 195 rooms

Toronto, Ontario

Le Méridien Toronto Pinnacle Hotel

Le Méridien returns to Canada for the first time in over 30 years

Upscale · 223 rooms

New York, New York

The Wolseley Hotel New York

London's storied brasserie brand opens its first-ever hotel, in a 1905 Broadway clubhouse.

Luxury · 76 rooms

Sydney, New South Wales

Waldorf Astoria Sydney

Australia's first Waldorf Astoria crowns Circular Quay between the Opera House and the Bridge.

Luxury · 220 rooms

Detroit, Michigan

JW Marriott Detroit Water Square

A 601-room JW Marriott rises where Joe Louis Arena once stood.

Luxury · 601 rooms

Tucson, Arizona

Tempo by Hilton Tucson Uptown

Hilton's design-forward Tempo brand anchors Tucson's former Foothills Mall site.

Upscale · 144 rooms

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Crystalbrook Aurora

Canberra finally gets an international-grade luxury hotel in its city centre.

Luxury · 225 rooms

Announced · February 2027

Indianapolis, Indiana

Signia by Hilton Indianapolis

An 800-room, 40-story new-build will be Indianapolis's tallest hotel.

Premium · 800 rooms

Columbus, Ohio

The Merchant Hotel

Columbus gets its first true luxury hotel, 32 storeys above the historic North Market.

Luxury · 212 rooms

Austin, Texas

The Standard, Austin

The Standard returns to the US with a South Congress reinvention after a decade away.

Lifestyle

Lake Tahoe, California

Gurney's Lake Tahoe Resort & Spa

The Hamptons' ultra-luxury brand makes its West Coast debut on Tahoe's shore.

Luxury · 206 rooms

North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Compass by Margaritaville Hotel

A 14-story Compass by Margaritaville rises where Castaway Beach Inn once stood

Upscale lifestyle · 141 rooms

Announced · Spring 2027 (expected)

Richmond, Virginia

AC Hotel Richmond Downtown (Eighth & Main)

A vacant 20-story Dominion Energy office tower becoming an AC Hotel over its lower floors, apartments over the rest.

Upscale/Lifestyle · 207 rooms

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Hotel Laureum

Northwestern Mutual turns a shuttered 1926 private club into a 35-room lakeside hotel.

Luxury · 35 rooms

Announced · Spring 2027 (announced target)

Plymouth, England

New Continental Plymouth, Tapestry Collection by Hilton

One of Plymouth's oldest hotels, built in 1865, rejoins Hilton's regional lifestyle roster as a Tapestry Collection conversion

Upscale lifestyle · 120 rooms

Chicago, Illinois

Bally's Chicago

A casino operator is building Chicago's newest riverfront skyscraper, and the hotel inside it is the least controversial part of the project.

Upscale · 500 rooms

Announced · May 2027 (expected)

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Hotel Indigo Virginia Beach Oceanfront

The oceanfront Ramada Plaza trades its Wyndham flag for IHG's upper-upscale Hotel Indigo after a $19M-plus renovation.

Upper-upscale lifestyle · 166 rooms

Montreal, Quebec

voco Montréal

IHG's fast-growing voco brand breaks ground in Canada for the first time, steps from the Palais des congrès

Upscale lifestyle · 55 rooms

Announced · Targeted for mid-2027

Cleveland, Ohio

AC Hotel Cleveland Downtown

A 1896 skyscraper built for a bank drops 26 years as a Holiday Inn Express to become downtown Cleveland's first AC Hotel by Marriott.

Upscale lifestyle · 141 rooms

Announced · Mid-to-late 2027 (expected)

Christchurch, Canterbury

Sheraton Christchurch

New Zealand's first Sheraton reimagines a quake-damaged 1970s tower beside Te Pae.

Luxury · 240 rooms

Announced · Mid-2027

Sydney, New South Wales

Sydney Marriott Hotel Parramatta

Marriott's flagship brand plants its first flag in Western Sydney, a ground-up five-star tower on Parramatta's Church Street due to open in mid-2027.

Upscale · 279 rooms

Announced · Mid-2027 (targeted)

Miami, Florida

Baccarat Hotel & Residences Brickell

A 75-story crystal-branded tower rising on the Miami River, built primarily as condominiums but carrying a hotel component whose exact size no one has yet pinned down.

Ultra-luxury

Announced · 2027-2028

Gold Coast, Queensland

St. Regis Gold Coast Resort

Marriott is bringing St. Regis to Australia for the first time, inside the first tower of GURNER's AU$1.7 billion La Pelago resort.

Ultra-luxury · 185 rooms

Announced · 2027 (one source cites 2028; timeline not fully settled)

Gold Coast, Queensland

Marina Mirage, a Luxury Collection Resort

Mainland Australia's first Luxury Collection resort anchors a roughly A$500 million rebuild of the Gold Coast's 1980s Marina Mirage shopping centre.

Luxury · 122 rooms

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Canyon Hotel

A canyon-inspired wellness hotel and spa proposed for Braddon's former Bowls Club site, still facing resident objections.

Boutique · 72 rooms

Announced · 2027 (announced target)

Fredericksburg, Texas

Waldorf Astoria Texas Hill Country

Waldorf Astoria's first Texas property, a 106-acre wine-country resort less than a mile from downtown Fredericksburg

Luxury resort · 60 rooms

Toronto, Ontario

voco Toronto Airport West

IHG's bid at Canada's first zero-emissions hotel, signed as part of voco's Canadian market debut

Premium · 180 rooms

Announced · Targeted for 2027

Louisville, Kentucky

JW Marriott Louisville

Kentucky's first JW Marriott converts a 26-story former bank tower into a five-restaurant landmark.

Luxury · 418 rooms

Detroit, Michigan

The Detroit EDITION

Downtown Detroit's first five-star hotel rises inside the restored Hudson's tower.

Luxury · 227 rooms

Wollongong, New South Wales

Avani Wollongong

Minor Hotels brings its design-led Avani brand to New South Wales for the first time.

Upscale · 107 rooms

Houston, Texas

The Birdsall, Auberge Resorts Collection

Auberge Resorts' Houston debut anchors a new River Oaks enclave.

Luxury · 105 rooms

Nashville, Tennessee

The Hoxton Nashville

The Hoxton's fifth U.S. address lands in a Nashville warehouse district still finding its name.

Lifestyle · 204 rooms

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia

MOB Hotel Washington DC

Cyril Aouizerate's Paris hotel-and-community concept plans its first North American address, Starck-designed, in Union Market.

Lifestyle boutique · 144 rooms

Miami Beach, Florida

Shore Club Resort and Residences, Auberge Resorts Collection

Auberge Resorts Collection takes over the historic Shore Club for a 2027 relaunch designed by Robert A.M. Stern

Luxury · 73 rooms

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Colourist, Tribute Portfolio

A carbon-net-zero hotel rising from seven derelict West End buildings, Marriott's first Tribute Portfolio in Scotland

Upscale boutique/lifestyle · 129 rooms

Houston, Texas

The Houston Grand Hotel — River Oaks

A 1982 tower that has already carried two Marriott luxury flags — Houston's first Ritz-Carlton, then the St. Regis since 1997 — is changing hands again: Saddlebrook Equity and Management acquired the hotel in January 2026 and will relaunch it as The Houston Grand Hotel — River Oaks under Marriott's Luxury Collection banner, following a full renovation.

Luxury · 232 rooms

Orlando, Florida

Disney Lakeshore Lodge

A 900-room Bay Lake resort rising on the site of a previously shelved Disney project of the same footprint

Upscale resort · 900 rooms

Manchester

InterContinental Manchester – Deansgate

IHG is converting the top floors of Manchester's 47-storey Beetham Tower from a two-decade-old Hilton into its fifth InterContinental in the UK and Ireland.

Luxury · 264 rooms

Gold Coast, Queensland

Marina Mirage Gold Coast, a Luxury Collection Resort

Marriott's first mainland Luxury Collection resort in Australia, rebuilding a Gold Coast marina precinct the Makris family has owned since 2013

Luxury · 122 rooms

Savannah, Georgia

The Digby, an Unbound Collection Hotel by Hyatt

A 36-room debut on the last vacant lot on Ellis Square, named for the family whose deed once covered the plot

Luxury boutique · 36 rooms

Announced · 2027 (announced target)

Manchester, England

Motto by Hilton Manchester Piccadilly

Manchester's first Motto by Hilton micro-hotel, rising 21 storeys in Piccadilly Basin

Upscale lifestyle (micro-hotel) · 154 rooms

Hallandale Beach, Florida

Shell Bay, Auberge Resorts Collection

Auberge Resorts Collection's South Florida debut, inside a private golf-and-marina club

Luxury

Announced · Targeted for 2027

Perth, Western Australia

Pullman Perth Airport

Perth Airport's first-ever on-site hotel, and Accor's first Pullman in the city, rises as part of a $5 billion capital works program

Upscale · 240 rooms

Dubai

Aman Dubai

Kerry Hill Architects designs Aman's UAE debut as an all-suite beachfront resort beside Four Seasons Jumeirah

Ultra-luxury

Announced · 2027 (targeted)

Hong Kong

Andaz Hong Kong Central

Hyatt's Andaz brand plans its Hong Kong debut inside a new mixed-use Central development

Luxury / Lifestyle · 125 rooms

Announced · Targeted 2027

Paradise Valley, Arizona

The Ritz-Carlton, Paradise Valley, The Palmeraie

Arizona's first new Ritz-Carlton in over a decade is rising between Phoenix and Scottsdale — under court-supervised construction after its developer's Chapter 11 filing.

Luxury · 215 rooms

Announced · 2027 (targeted)

Chicago, Illinois

The Neighborhood Hotel – West Loop

A landmarked 1912 bank headquarters, vacant since 2005, being converted into the operator's second Chicago property, with the old vaults becoming a bar.

Boutique · 76 rooms

Atlanta, Georgia

Virgin Hotels Atlanta

Virgin Hotels' first Georgia outpost rises 14 stories above Centennial Yards, steps from State Farm Arena and Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Upscale lifestyle · 261 rooms

Announced · 2027 (targeted)

San Diego, California

Fairmont Manchester San Diego

Fairmont's largest US hotel yet rises 36 stories over San Diego Bay.

Luxury · 1 rooms

Chicago, Illinois

Ruby Hotel Chicago

German design brand Ruby converts a 1920s tower for its US debut.

Upscale · 412 rooms

Nashville, Tennessee

Pendry Nashville

Montage International's Pendry brand debuts in Nashville with 146 branded residences attached.

Luxury · 180 rooms

Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Waldorf Astoria Lake Tahoe

Waldorf Astoria's first Sierra Nevada property is rising on the demolished remains of the shuttered Tahoe Biltmore casino — after a 2024 loan default notice and asbestos-driven demolition delays.

5-star luxury — Waldorf Astoria's first Sierra Nevada property · 76 rooms

Announced · 2027-2028

Niagara Falls, New York

Hotel Niagara

A 1924 landmark hotel that sat vacant for roughly 19 years is being rebuilt into a 150-room upper-upscale property, on a timeline that has already slipped repeatedly.

Upper-upscale / full-service · 150 rooms

London, England

The Oberoi, Mayfair

Oberoi's first hotel outside Asia and the Middle East will have just 23 rooms behind a Grade-II-listed Mayfair facade.

Luxury · 23 rooms

Announced · 2027-2028

Boston, Massachusetts

Strider Hotel

A Curio Collection by Hilton debut rising at Boston Landing, beside the Brighton commuter-rail stop

Upscale lifestyle · 170 rooms

Montreal, Quebec

Hôtel du Casino de Montréal, Le Germain

Loto-Québec brings the boutique Le Germain brand to Parc Jean-Drapeau with a low-rise hotel beside its casino

Luxury/boutique · 220 rooms

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Tempo by Hilton Virginia Beach Town Center

A seven-story, 163-room lifestyle hotel has topped out on a demolished bank site in Virginia Beach's Town Center, tracking toward 2027 after two schedule slips from an original 2025 target.

Upscale / Lifestyle · 163 rooms

Melbourne, Victoria

The Hoxton, Melbourne

Ennismore's The Hoxton is coming to Australia for the first time, taking anchor position inside a $600 million redevelopment of Cremorne's former Bryant & May matchstick factory — a 198-room hotel still years from opening but already signed to one of Melbourne's most ambitious heritage-industrial precincts.

Upscale lifestyle (The Hoxton) · 198 rooms

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia

The Bazaar House by José Andrés

José Andrés opens his first hotel: a 67-room Georgetown club-and-restaurant compound.

Luxury · 67 rooms

Detroit, Michigan

NoMad Detroit

Hilton's NoMad brand debuts in the US atop Detroit's restored Michigan Central Station.

Luxury · 180 rooms

Ottawa, Ontario

Renaissance Ottawa Downtown

Marriott's Renaissance brand debuts in Ottawa inside a 35-storey Slater Street tower.

Upscale · 230 rooms

Blenheim, Marlborough

The Alfred Hotel

A six-storey riverside hotel anchors Blenheim's new wine-country entertainment precinct.

Upscale · 123 rooms

Maui, Hawaii

St. Regis Kapalua Bay

Marriott's first Hawaii return for St. Regis, converting a 146-residence oceanfront resort on Maui's Kapalua coast.

Luxury · 146 rooms

Inverness, Highland, Scotland

KIN

A £28 million conversion meets the Highlands' shortage of luxury rooms.

Luxury · 72 rooms

Cleveland, Ohio

Tribute Hotel at the Sloan Building

A century-old office tower becomes downtown Cleveland's first hotel-apartment hybrid.

Upscale · 123 rooms

Aspen, Colorado

Aspen Mountain Chalet

Aspen's oldest lodge, reborn as a $100 million alpine landmark.

Luxury · 59 rooms

Announced · Summer 2027 (announced target)

Los Angeles, California

Soho House Venice Beach

Soho House's fifth Greater LA outpost leans entirely into wellness, steps from Abbot Kinney Boulevard

Boutique members' club with hotel rooms

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Aloft Albuquerque Sunport

New Mexico's first Aloft hotel is rising four stories from an airport-adjacent lot, built with extra soundproofing to blunt the Sunport's runway noise.

Upscale Lifestyle · 109 rooms

Announced · Summer 2027 (targeted)

Seattle, Washington

The Baillie

A century-old Capitol Hill mansion trades its decades as a bed and breakfast for a restaurant-led boutique hotel.

Boutique/Luxury · 10 rooms

Houston, Texas

Canopy by Hilton Houston Downtown

Houston's first Canopy by Hilton, inside the 116-year-old Scanlan Building

Upscale lifestyle · 140 rooms

Birmingham, England

Radisson RED Edgbaston Stadium

A pitch-facing Radisson RED rising inside Edgbaston Stadium's £42m redevelopment, targeted for the 2027 Ashes

Upscale lifestyle (4-star) · 146 rooms

Announced · September 2027

Gatlinburg, Tennessee

The Scoundrel Hotel, Tribute Portfolio

Appalachian moonshine heritage reimagined as a boutique Smoky Mountains hotel.

Upscale · 132 rooms

Announced · Q3 2027

Nashville, Tennessee

Moxy Nashville Capitol District

A second Moxy for Nashville, this one rising north of the Capitol rather than on Broadway.

Lifestyle · 188 rooms

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Sports Illustrated Resort Baton Rouge

The Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center is converting into a Sports Illustrated Resort, betting on LSU's college-sports culture to reinvent a downtown tower.

Upscale/Lifestyle · 137 rooms

Announced · September 2027

Cork

Cork City Centre, Tapestry Collection by Hilton

Hilton's first Cork hotel restores a protected Georgian terrace by Sir Thomas Deane behind a new six-storey extension

Upscale lifestyle · 103 rooms

Announced · Autumn 2027 (announced target)

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Catbird Hotel Colorado Springs

Sage Hospitality is bringing its Denver extended-stay hit south, betting that fully equipped kitchens and a lending closet of mopeds and snowboards will work just as well at the foot of Pikes Peak.

Upscale / Boutique lifestyle · 180 rooms

Announced · Fall 2027 (targeted)

New York, New York

Little Nell New York

Aspen's most discreet hotel arrives at 10 Rockefeller Plaza

Luxury · 130 rooms

Announced · Fall 2027

St. Louis, Missouri

Sheraton St. Louis Downtown

An $81M overhaul turns a mural-clad landmark into a new-flag Sheraton.

Premium · 284 rooms

Announced · Fall 2027

Dallas, Texas

Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Dallas at Turtle Creek

A 35-story Pelli Clarke tower brings Four Seasons to Dallas for the first time.

Luxury · 233 rooms

Announced · October 2027

Queenstown, Otago

NOCTIS by Kamana

A night-sky-themed villa resort rising on the shore of Lake Wakatipu.

Ultra-luxury · 37 rooms

Naples, Florida

The Carnelian Hotel

A 70-suite hotel built alongside — but kept separate from — Naples' newest private club

Luxury/Boutique · 70 rooms

Omaha, Nebraska

Millwork Hotel

A 1920s wood-milling warehouse becomes Omaha's newest boutique address.

Lifestyle · 144 rooms

Tucson, Arizona

Hyatt Regency Tucson Convention Center

A decade-vacant downtown landmark becomes Tucson's first Hyatt Regency.

Premium · 291 rooms

Houston, Texas

Compass Hotel by Margaritaville Nassau Bay

A Hilton flag on NASA Parkway is coming down for a Margaritaville one, as the 2025 sale of Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake to Nassau Bay Resorts LLC turns a convention hotel next to Johnson Space Center into a 229-room tropical-themed resort.

Upscale/Boutique Resort · 229 rooms

Atlanta, Georgia

The Marriott Atlanta

Atlanta's Crowne Plaza Midtown tower is changing flags outright: new owners are converting the IHG property into The Marriott Atlanta, a flagship Marriott Hotels reopening targeted for late 2027, months ahead of Super Bowl LXII.

Upper-upscale · 462 rooms

Sydney, New South Wales

AC Hotel by Marriott Sydney Hyde Metropolitan

Marriott's design-led AC Hotels brand debuts in Sydney on the podium floors of a 55-storey tower facing Hyde Park, with construction under way for a late-2027 opening.

Upscale lifestyle · 104 rooms

Announced · Late 2027 (targeted)

Houston, Texas

AC Hotel by Marriott CityCentre Houston

A ground-up six-story AC Hotel breaking ground as CityCentre's second property, aimed at the mixed-use district's business and leisure crowd alike.

Upscale / Lifestyle · 153 rooms

Fort Worth, Texas

SpringHill Suites by Marriott Fort Worth South Main

A 156-room select-service Marriott going up on the corner that anchors South Main's restaurant strip, betting on foot traffic rather than a signature design statement.

Upscale select-service · 156 rooms

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

AC Hotel Milwaukee Downtown

A seven-story tower on the old Bradley Center site gives Milwaukee's Deer District a second new hotel — switched from Moxy to AC Hotel before it ever opened under either flag.

Upscale select-service lifestyle · 156 rooms

Sydney, New South Wales

Courtyard by Marriott Sydney Crows Nest

Courtyard by Marriott is returning to Sydney after years away, taking the first three levels of Deicorp's AU$640 million Falcon & Alexander tower in Crows Nest, a 100-room hotel opening beside the new Crows Nest Metro station in late 2027.

Upscale / select-service · 100 rooms

Los Angeles, California

Aman Beverly Hills

Aman's first West Coast hotel is rising inside a $10 billion Beverly Hills megaproject — with a completion date still two Olympics away.

Ultra-luxury · 78 rooms

Queenstown, New Zealand

St. Regis Queenstown

St. Regis makes its New Zealand debut on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.

Luxury · 145 rooms

Announced · November 2027

Las Vegas, Nevada

Hard Rock Las Vegas (Guitar Hotel)

A 42-story guitar-shaped tower is replacing The Mirage on the Strip.

Luxury · 675 rooms

Announced · Q4 2027

Miami Beach, Florida

Grand Hyatt Miami Beach Convention Center Hotel

A 17-story, 800-room convention headquarters hotel is rising beside the Miami Beach Convention Center, linked to it by a climate-controlled skybridge — a $385 million build by Terra Group and Turnberry that topped out in July 2026 and is tracking toward a November 2027 opening.

Upper-upscale, large-format convention headquarters hotel (Grand Hyatt brand) · 800 rooms

Queenstown, Otago

Radisson RED Queenstown

A playful lifestyle brand lands at the foot of the Southern Alps.

Upscale / lifestyle · 221 rooms

Lake Tahoe, California

The Mtn Scout Truckee, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel

Marriott's Tribute Portfolio breaks ground on what's reported as Truckee's first upper-upscale, full-service hotel.

Upper-upscale boutique · 129 rooms

Indianapolis, Indiana

The Ritz-Carlton, Indianapolis

Marriott's first Ritz-Carlton in Indianapolis rises where a Shinola hotel was once planned.

Luxury · 176 rooms

Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Rev, Tribute Portfolio Hotel

Titan Development is razing a derelict 1959 Route 66 motor court in Nob Hill and replacing it with a 112-room Tribute Portfolio hotel, funded in part by a $34 million county revenue bond.

Upscale/Boutique · 112 rooms

Announced · Late 2028 / early 2029 (targeted)

Salt Lake City, Utah

Kimpton Hotel West Temple

A $102 million Kimpton tower rises at 370 South West Temple, downtown Salt Lake City's second Kimpton address

Upscale/Lifestyle · 216 rooms

Announced · Q1 2028

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati Marriott Downtown

A 21-story, 700-room Marriott Hotels tower broke ground at Fifth and Plum Streets on July 21, 2026, built to give Cincinnati a headquarters hotel directly wired into the newly renamed First Financial Center by skybridge.

Upper-upscale full-service convention hotel · 700 rooms

Tampa, Florida

AC Hotel & Moxy Tampa Downtown

A 13-story dual-branded tower breaking ground in the Channel District, pairing 175 AC Hotel rooms with 135 Moxy rooms under one roof and a shared rooftop pool deck.

Upscale / Lifestyle · 310 rooms

Announced · Early 2028 (targeted)

Melbourne, Victoria

The Como Melbourne

COMO's east-coast Australia debut brings a full-floor Shambhala spa to St Kilda Road.

Luxury · 102 rooms

Announced · Targeted spring 2028

Perth, Western Australia

The Bennett by Ovolo Perth, a Wyndham Hotel

The first Wyndham-Ovolo franchise hotel, planned for East Perth.

Lifestyle · 111 rooms

Announced · March 2028

Chattanooga, Tennessee

AC Hotel Chattanooga

Chattanooga's first AC Hotel, a ground-up build on Southside's Broad and Main with a Japanese restaurant on the ground floor

Upscale lifestyle · 148 rooms

Leeds, England

room2 Leeds

A 16-storey hometel is rising on the site of Leeds' old international swimming pool, due in 2028 under a brand that may not carry the same name by the time it opens.

Boutique "hometel" — a hybrid format combining hotel service with studio and suite layouts built for both short stays and extended residency · 191 rooms

Announced · Targeted for spring 2028

Savannah, Georgia

The Ritz-Carlton Savannah, Downtown

Savannah's tallest early-20th-century landmark becomes its first Ritz-Carlton.

Luxury · 168 rooms

Announced · Q2 2028

Savannah, Georgia

Signia by Hilton Savannah

A $398 million, 444-room convention headquarters hotel is rising on Hutchinson Island, reachable only by bridge or ferry.

Upper-upscale, luxury · 444 rooms

Announced · Mid-2028

Richmond, Virginia

AC Hotel Richmond Scott's Addition

A 12-story AC Hotel rising on a former Hardee's lot, sharing one Scott's Addition tower with a separate 120-suite Residence Inn.

Upscale/Lifestyle · 133 rooms

Announced · Mid-2028 (expected)

Indianapolis, Indiana

21c Museum Hotel Indianapolis

Ennismore's art-hotel brand 21c signed a 2024 deal to build inside Indianapolis's 1910 Old City Hall — the same site where an earlier 21c deal for the building collapsed in 2017.

Boutique / lifestyle (art hotel) · 156 rooms

Announced · Targeted 2028

Dallas, Texas

The Dallas EDITION

Ian Schrager's EDITION brand debuts in Texas atop Uptown's Chalk Hill development.

Luxury · 214 rooms

Victoria, British Columbia

Hyatt Centric Victoria - Old Town

Victoria's first new hotel build in nearly 20 years, and its first Hyatt.

Upscale · 166 rooms

Announced · 2028 (announced target)

Montreal, Quebec

Motto by Hilton Montreal

Canada's first Motto by Hilton, disclosed as part of Hilton's broader Canadian pipeline

Upscale lifestyle (micro-hotel)

London, England

Mandarin Oriental Bankside, London

Mandarin Oriental's third London hotel is planned for 2028 within the Bankside Yards development on the South Bank, a PLP Architecture-designed tower with 171 rooms, 70 branded residences and views over St Paul's Cathedral.

Luxury · 171 rooms

Announced · 2028 (groundbreaking targeted for 2026)

Louisville, Kentucky

One Forty West

A 27-story, 300-room tower planned for downtown Louisville's former EMW clinic site, with groundbreaking targeted for 2026

Upscale · 300 rooms

Orlando, Florida

InterContinental Orlando

IHG's luxury flagship for International Drive rises on the fully demolished site of the former Wyndham Orlando Resort

Luxury · 700 rooms

Announced · 2028 (targeted)

Austin, Texas

Graduate Austin

AJ Capital's college-town brand ditches its usual adaptive-reuse playbook for a ground-up tower blocks from the UT Austin campus.

Boutique/Lifestyle · 194 rooms

Memphis, Tennessee

100 N. Main Hotel, Autograph Collection

Memphis's tallest building, empty since the mid-2010s, is being converted into a 160-room Marriott Autograph hotel — construction has already stalled once.

Upscale / Boutique · 160 rooms

Announced · Before 2028

Chicago, Illinois

Backbeat Hotel

The first hotel planned for Chicago's Northalsted strip, a small LGBTQ+-centered new build named for the city's house-music history.

Boutique / Lifestyle · 50 rooms

Announced · Targeted 2028

Kansas City, Missouri

UMusic Hotel Kansas City

Universal Music's hotel brand plans to convert Kansas City's 1907 Scarritt Building, the city's second-ever skyscraper, into a 169-room hotel with recording studios, anchoring a $465-484M downtown redevelopment still in permitting.

Luxury · 169 rooms

Announced · 2028 (targeted)

Niagara Falls, Ontario

The Toronto Power Hotel

A 1906 power station becomes Niagara Falls' first five-star hotel.

Luxury

Telluride, Colorado

Six Senses Telluride

IHG's first Six Senses resort in the Mountain West: 77 rooms and 24 residences rising in Mountain Village, above Telluride's box canyon.

Ultra-luxury · 77 rooms

Telluride, Colorado

Four Seasons Resort and Residences Telluride

A $1bn ski-in/ski-out development at the base of the Telluride gondola — Four Seasons' Colorado debut, and Mountain Village's first new luxury project in over 15 years.

Ultra-luxury · 52 rooms

Calgary, Alberta

Autograph Collection Hotel, Stampede Park

The first hotel ever built directly on Stampede Park grounds, anchoring Truman's $330-million Culture + Entertainment District debut

Upper-upscale lifestyle · 320 rooms

Johns Island, South Carolina

Jubilee

A 75-key wellness hotel anchoring a 13-acre 'coastal revival' village on Johns Island — the first hotel of its kind for an area where visitors usually stay 30 to 45 minutes away.

Upscale/Wellness · 75 rooms

Kelowna, British Columbia

Sutton Place Hotel Kelowna

A $100-million luxury tower rising directly beside Kelowna's airport terminal.

Luxury · 245 rooms

Nashville, Tennessee

The Nashville EDITION

Marriott's design-driven EDITION brand breaks ground on a 28-story Gulch tower pairing 261 rooms with 84 residences, backed by $400 million in construction financing.

Luxury lifestyle · 261 rooms

Brisbane, Queensland

Kimpton Hotel Teneriffe

Queensland's first Kimpton, rising inside the Teneriffe Banks riverside precinct with a level-14 restaurant and an infinity pool over the Brisbane River.

Upper-upscale / Lifestyle · 155 rooms

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Sutton Place Hotel Winnipeg

Twin luxury towers link by skyway to the Winnipeg Jets' arena.

Luxury · 275 rooms

Announced · Summer 2028 (targeted)

Las Vegas, Nevada

AC Hotel & Residence Inn Las Vegas Convention Center

Mortenson's first Las Vegas ground-up development pairs 237 AC Hotel rooms with 160 Residence Inn suites

Upscale · 397 rooms

Vancouver, British Columbia

Moxy & Element Vancouver Downtown

A 30-storey dual-brand tower near Rogers Arena pairs Moxy's social energy with Element's extended-stay calm

Upscale lifestyle · 392 rooms

Announced · Summer 2028 (targeted)

Portland, Oregon

Taft Home Hotel

McMenamins is restoring a 1906 hotel-turned-senior-housing building, with a private skybridge into its Crystal Ballroom next door.

Boutique/Lifestyle · 63 rooms

Announced · September 2028 (targeted)

Miami, Florida

Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami

A 100-story stack of glass cubes becomes Florida's tallest building, Miami's first supertall.

Luxury · 205 rooms

Tauranga, Bay of Plenty

Rydges Tauranga

A ground-up, 158-room Rydges just 50m from Tauranga's waterfront — the city's second internationally branded hotel after Mercure Tauranga.

Upscale · 158 rooms

Announced · Late 2028 (targeted)

Charlotte, North Carolina

Autograph Collection Hotel, Charlotte South End

White Lodging breaks ground on South End's first full-service lifestyle hotel, a 295-room Autograph Collection property with a plunge-pool pool deck and rooftop restaurant.

Upscale lifestyle · 295 rooms

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia

Chinatown DC Hotel, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel

Seven historic Chinatown rowhouses, a nine-story addition, and a Moy family plan first sketched in the 1970s.

Boutique · 90 rooms

Bend, Oregon

CASCADA Bend

Portland's celebrated thermal-springs hotel is opening a second, larger outpost in downtown Bend, with 68 rooms and roughly 250% more water than the original.

Upscale/Wellness · 68 rooms

Raleigh, North Carolina

Omni Raleigh Hotel

A 600-room, 29-story tower anchors downtown Raleigh's convention district.

Premium · 600 rooms

Announced · Targeted for May 2029

Columbus, Ohio

University Square Hotel, Tribute Portfolio

An eight-story Marriott is set to become Ohio State's first purpose-built hotel, though its opening date, room count and even groundbreaking are all still moving targets.

Upscale lifestyle (Marriott soft brand) · 140 rooms

Calgary, Alberta

W Calgary

A 69-storey tower set to become Western Canada's tallest building brings W to Calgary.

Luxury · 157 rooms

Announced · 2029 (announced target)

Toronto, Ontario

Tempo by Hilton Toronto Airport

Canada's first Tempo by Hilton, planned for the Pearson Airport corridor in Mississauga

Upscale select-service/lifestyle · 193 rooms

Nashville, Tennessee

The Ritz-Carlton Nashville

Marriott's most prestigious brand tries Nashville again, this time in the Gulch and under an entirely different developer.

Luxury · 182 rooms

Phoenix, Arizona

JW Marriott Downtown Phoenix

A vacant 1990s office tower becomes Arizona Center's first hotel conversion

Luxury · 340 rooms

Announced · 2029 (targeted)

Dallas, Texas

Dallas Proper Hotel & Residences

A 34-story SOM tower bringing Proper Hospitality's design-driven brand to Uptown Dallas, with interiors by Kelly Wearstler.

Luxury · 200 rooms

Kanab, Utah

Six Senses Camp Korongo

A 480-acre desert camp of tented pavilions near Kanab, close enough to see Zion, Bryce Canyon, the Grand Canyon and Arches from the site.

Ultra-luxury · 41 rooms

Dubai

Rosewood Dubai

Rosewood's Dubai debut: a 195-room hotel plus private garden villas at Peninsula Dubai, a new waterfront district on Jumeirah Beach.

Ultra-luxury · 195 rooms

Mirfa, Abu Dhabi

The St. Regis Mirfa Beach Resort

An all-villa waterfront resort of 63 private beachfront and floating villas, bringing St. Regis to the quiet Al Dhafra coastal town of Mirfa.

Ultra-luxury · 63 rooms

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino San Juan

An $850 million bay-front resort with Puerto Rico's first integrated casino is set to add over 650 rooms, suites and residences to San Juan by 2029.

Luxury · 415 rooms

Houston, Texas

The Ritz-Carlton, Houston

The Ritz-Carlton's Houston debut tops a 45-story Uptown tower designed by Pickard Chilton.

Luxury · 156 rooms

Announced · Fall 2029

Gold Coast, Queensland

The Westin Gold Coast

The Westin brand's Gold Coast debut climbs the middle floors of a Surfers Paradise skyscraper, five years from completion

Upscale · 138 rooms

Announced · Late 2029

Miami, Florida

Anantara Miami Resort & Residences

Minor Hotels brings Anantara to the United States for the first time with a 650-foot tower on Biscayne Bay

Luxury · 50 rooms

Announced · 2030

New York, New York

Bally's Bronx

A 500-room casino hotel at Ferry Point Park, one of three downstate casino licenses New York state approved in December 2025

Upscale · 500 rooms

Announced · 2030

Calgary, Alberta

JW Marriott Calgary

A 62-storey tower pairing 248 guest rooms with 120 branded residences, part of Truman and Louson's twin-tower project by the BMO Centre

Luxury · 248 rooms

Announced · 2030

Manchester

Nobu Hotel Manchester

A 76-storey, 246-metre tower set to become the UK's tallest building outside London will carry a 160-room Nobu hotel above restored Victorian viaduct arches.

Luxury · 160 rooms

Announced · 2031

Adelaide, South Australia

Hilton Adelaide East End

Hilton's return to Adelaide comes as a 27-storey flagship on a former blood-donor centre site, with a 2031 opening that gives this one an unusually long runway.

Upper-upscale flagship · 251 rooms

Announced · 2031

Calgary, Alberta

Fairmont Calgary

Fairmont's second Calgary hotel anchors the Stampede Park redevelopment, with 100 residences.

Luxury · 225 rooms

Announced · Q4 2031

Perth, Western Australia

Anantara Perth Hotel

Minor Hotels brings its Thai-inspired luxury Anantara brand to Australia for the first time, anchoring a AUD 3.8 billion Swan River masterplan

Luxury · 150 rooms

Announced · 2032

Chicago, Illinois

The Hoxton, Lakeshore East

Ennismore's second Hoxton for Chicago is set to anchor a 47-story Lakeshore East tower near Millennium Park, though the construction loan that would actually start the project is still missing.

Upscale lifestyle

Los Angeles, California

Hotel Lucile

A 1931 Romanesque church in Silver Lake, stripped of its congregation and rebuilt as a 25-room hotel without a single new wall.

Boutique / lifestyle · 25 rooms

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Loews Hotel Pittsburgh (Convention Center)

A 500-room Loews hotel is proposed to attach directly to Pittsburgh's convention center, but only a non-binding letter of intent has been signed so far.

Upper-upscale full-service (specific brand tier not yet disclosed) · 500 rooms

Indianapolis, Indiana

Motto by Hilton Indianapolis (King Cole Building)

A 1915 Beaux Arts office building near Monument Circle has been slated to become a 116-room Motto by Hilton since 2019 — and still hasn't broken ground.

Boutique lifestyle micro-hotel · 116 rooms

Asheville, North Carolina

Zelda Salon

Hatteras Sky's second Fitzgerald Estate hotel turns a century-old downtown department store into a Paris-1920s-themed boutique property.

Luxury boutique · 35 rooms

Sedona, Arizona

Senoa Resort & Spa

A fully entitled, low-density villa resort on Oak Creek — one of the last new luxury hotel sites Sedona's restrictive zoning will allow.

Luxury / wellness resort · 70 rooms

Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Royal Northern Infirmary Hotel

Highland Council approved a 45-room hotel inside Inverness's B-listed former infirmary building over 67 letters of local objection.

Boutique · 45 rooms

Chicago, Illinois

Hudson House, Motor Row, Curio Collection by Hilton

A century-old auto showroom on Chicago's Motor Row is being converted into a 154-room Hilton Curio Collection hotel led by two former NFL players turned developers.

Upscale / Boutique · 154 rooms

Lake Tahoe, California

Common Pine (Truckee Railyard Hotel)

Billed as the Lake Tahoe region's first mass-timber hotel, approved for downtown Truckee's Railyard district — and now under appeal.

Boutique/upscale — billed as the Lake Tahoe region's first mass-timber hotel · 60 rooms

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Third Ward Hotel (224 E. Chicago St.)

NCG Hospitality's second Milwaukee conversion switched from a planned AC Hotel to an unbranded boutique project in the same March 2026 shake-up that changed its Deer District hotel's flag.

Upscale boutique (developer's stated positioning)

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

TRYP by Wyndham Milwaukee (Haymarket)

An 1888 steam laundry and soap factory in Milwaukee's Haymarket district, never once a hotel, is becoming a 60-room TRYP by Wyndham after years of delay.

Upscale/lifestyle boutique · 60 rooms

Chicago, Illinois

Foundry Park Hotel

A boutique hotel with no name or operator yet, planned as one piece of Foundry Park, the $3 billion riverfront redevelopment of the former Lincoln Yards site, whose zoning cleared the Chicago Plan Commission and City Council in early 2026.

Boutique (provisional — no brand confirmed)

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Downtown Tulsa Convention Center Hotel

A planned 650-room hotel connecting directly to Tulsa's Arvest Convention Center, with a developer named but no hotel brand confirmed yet.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Scandvik Hotels & Nordic Spa

A Scandinavian-style Nordic spa hotel clears its final zoning hurdle at The Willows, four years after it was first proposed

Boutique / Wellness · 120 rooms

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Mogul Hotel and Residences, Jackson Hole

A five-building complex approved for Jackson's northern gateway, four years into planning and still without a hotel brand or a groundbreaking date

Upscale/luxury, branded hotel and residences per the developer's own description — specific brand affiliation not yet confirmed · 109 rooms

Adelaide, South Australia

King William Street Hotel

A vacant brutalist transit office a block from Victoria Square is being rebuilt into a 129-room boutique hotel — a scaled-down second attempt after an earlier 39-storey tower on a related site never got built.

Boutique · 129 rooms

Nashville, Tennessee

Signia by Hilton Nashville Yards

A 33-story convention tower planned to make Nashville's largest hotel even bigger than the Omni.

Upper-upscale · 817 rooms

Miami, Florida

Treehouse Hotel Brickell

A 62-story treehouse of reclaimed wood and rooftop pools, first announced for 2023, still without a firm opening date five years later.

Upscale lifestyle · 191 rooms

Vancouver, British Columbia

888 Cambie, Marriott Autograph Collection

A 29-storey Yaletown tower pairs 246 Marriott Autograph Collection rooms with rental housing behind a retained heritage facade

Upscale · 246 rooms

Vancouver, British Columbia

Residence Inn Vancouver Airport

A new extended-stay Marriott property taking shape in Richmond's Bridgeport area, near Vancouver International Airport

Upscale

Sacramento, California

Convention Center Hotel Tower Sacramento

A planned 28-story tower bridging directly into Sacramento's renovated convention center

Premium · 330 rooms

Nottingham, England

Staybridge Suites, The Island Quarter

68 extended-stay suites sharing a 17-storey IHG tower with Hotel Indigo in the Island Quarter regeneration

Upscale extended-stay · 68 rooms

Rotorua, Bay of Plenty

Noho Lakeside Hotel

A proposed five-star lakefront hotel built around a tikanga Māori design framework

Luxury · 197 rooms

Southampton, England

THE NICI, Southampton

A nine-storey waterfront hotel with a rooftop helipad, approved as the flagship of Southampton's £200m+ Town Quay regeneration

Premium · 128 rooms

Cardiff, Wales

Courtyard by Marriott Cardiff

A 158-room, four-star Courtyard by Marriott approved for a Queen Street retail building, adding a rooftop pavilion restaurant and sky-bar.

Upscale · 158 rooms

New York, New York

Soho House Flatiron

Soho House's fourth and largest Manhattan house, announced for construction starting 2027 with no other details yet public

Boutique members' club with hotel rooms

Norwich, England

St James Mill

A Grade I-listed 1839 yarn mill proposed for conversion into an 88-bed hotel — Norwich's first — still awaiting planning approval.

Boutique · 88 rooms

St. Louis, Missouri

Kimpton Hotel St. Louis Downtown West

A $126 million dual-branded, new-build Kimpton and Staybridge Suites project at Market and Jefferson, still under construction

Upscale/Lifestyle · 170 rooms

Chicago, Illinois

EDITION Chicago

Marriott's design-led EDITION brand in advanced talks to take over 12 floors of the former John Hancock Center

Luxury · 350 rooms

Nottingham, England

Hotel Indigo, The Island Quarter

155 boutique rooms anchoring a 17-storey dual-brand IHG tower in Nottingham's Island Quarter regeneration

Upscale · 155 rooms

San Jose, California

The Olin Hotel

A new-build 176-room boutique hotel approved for a former gas-station site across from Santana Row, with no operator or opening date confirmed yet.

Boutique · 176 rooms

Cardiff, Wales

Floating Hotel, Cardiff Bay

A proposed 120-room floating hotel for Cardiff Bay's Roath Basin, still in planning consultation with no approval secured yet.

Luxury · 120 rooms

Oxford, England

Wilde Aparthotel Oxford

A shuttered George Street cinema is being demolished to make way for Oxford's first purpose-built aparthotel, with a community hub built into the ground floor.

Upscale (aparthotel) · 145 rooms

Cincinnati, Ohio

Kimpton Hotel Downtown Cincinnati (Traction Building)

Cincinnati's first Kimpton has been under way, on and off, for nearly a decade inside a 1903 Daniel Burnham office tower

Upscale lifestyle · 152 rooms

Toronto, Ontario

38 Camden Street

The smaller half of Manga Hotels' paired Fashion District project, a boutique hotel retaining the facade of the existing Camden Street building alongside the larger tower going up next door at 471 Richmond Street West.

Boutique · 140 rooms

Boston, Massachusetts

110 Canal Street Hotel

A vacant Bulfinch Triangle office tower, once CBT Architects' own headquarters, is approved for conversion into an 84-room hotel

Boutique/upscale · 84 rooms

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Adams Hotel

An 11-room boutique conversion of a 1920 auto dealership near Cathedral Square, six years and a parking-lot lawsuit into its build.

Boutique · 11 rooms

Birmingham, England

59-65 John Bright Street Aparthotel

A long-vacant former sexual health clinic on John Bright Street has already won planning permission to become a 40-room aparthotel.

Hotel/aparthotel hybrid — roughly half the rooms include a kitchenette, pointing toward an extended-stay positioning rather than a conventional leisure-hotel brand · 40 rooms

Chicago, Illinois

Aquinnah Hotel

A 26-story, 250-room tower approved for Woodlawn's Stony Island Avenue, a short walk from the Obama Presidential Center — with no hotel brand attached yet.

Upscale/Luxury (provisional — no brand confirmed) · 250 rooms

Los Angeles, California

Venice Place

Approved by the California Coastal Commission in 2023 after a decade of hearings and four separate appeals, this 78-room Abbot Kinney project still hadn't broken ground by early 2026, when its coastal permit was extended a second time.

Boutique/Upscale · 78 rooms

Toronto, Ontario

Toronto Star Building Hotel

Pinnacle International is converting the 25-storey former Toronto Star office tower on the city's waterfront into a hotel with close to 500 suites, the south-block counterpart to its already-announced Le Méridien in the neighbouring SkyTower.

Upscale/luxury, including an extended-stay component

Toronto, Ontario

471 Richmond Street West

Manga Hotels is building a roughly 250-room addition to its TOOR Hotel Collection in Toronto's Fashion District, paired on the same block with a smaller boutique hotel at 38 Camden Street.

Upscale lifestyle

Auckland, Auckland

Downtown Carpark Redevelopment Hotel (Te Pūmanawa o Tāmaki)

A 200-room hotel buried inside a twin-tower waterfront mega-project, with no brand or opening date yet

NC — segment not yet confirmed · 200 rooms

Vancouver, British Columbia

Sunborn Vancouver

A 136-metre floating hotel approved for Coal Harbour, moored beside the Vancouver Convention Centre

Upscale/lifestyle · 250 rooms

Vancouver, British Columbia

AC Hotel by Marriott, 901 West Broadway

A 12-storey new-build planned across from Vancouver's future Oak-VGH SkyTrain station

Upscale lifestyle/select-service · 151 rooms

Edinburgh, Scotland

Rose Theatre Hotel

A former chapel-turned-theatre on Rose Street cleared for a 43-room hotel, after an earlier plan was rejected as "cultural vandalism"

Boutique · 43 rooms

Edinburgh, Scotland

Brewhouse Bridge Hotel

A 24-bed hotel inside the last intact 19th-century brewery in the area, part of a wider Craigmillar regeneration

Uncertain — the conservation-led approach and heritage setting point toward a boutique/heritage positioning, but the small scale and suburban business-park location make the segment genuinely unclear · 24 rooms

Brisbane, Queensland

Victory Hotel Tower

A proposed 51-storey, 284-room tower rising behind Brisbane's heritage-listed Victory Hotel pub, still at the development-application stage

Upscale · 284 rooms

Brisbane, Queensland

Aria South Brisbane Hotel

A 216-room hotel inside a newly approved three-tower masterplan that also restores two heritage buildings on Melbourne Street

Upscale · 216 rooms

Brisbane, Queensland

Hyatt Place Brisbane, South City Square

Hyatt's return to Queensland after a decade away, an 18-storey new-build inside a $700 million Woolloongabba precinct

Upper-midscale select-service · 170 rooms

Birmingham, England

Murdoch & Pitman Chambers Hotel

A Grade II*-listed Corporation Street landmark that hosted Gandhi as a vegetarian hotel in the 1930s, restored back into one after 70-odd years as offices

Upscale (advertised 4-star) · 156 rooms

Auckland, Auckland

Moxy Auckland

Marriott's youth-focused Moxy brand rises in prefabricated modules above Auckland's Learning Quarter, years behind its original schedule

Lifestyle · 190 rooms

Liverpool, England

King Edward Triangle five-star hotel tower — operator not yet announced

A five-star hotel is planned within a £1 billion, near-3,000-home waterfront masterplan on Liverpool's northern docks

Luxury/Five-star (segment not yet confirmed by an operator)

Anaheim, California

Road House Hotel

A 125-room boutique hotel rising on the Anaheim Resort district's last vacant industrial lot, its rooftop bar aimed squarely at Disneyland's nightly fireworks.

Upscale boutique lifestyle · 125 rooms

Fort Worth, Texas

Tempo by Hilton Fort Worth Stockyards

Wisconsin developer Raymond Management files plans for a 138-room Tempo on North Main Street, Fort Worth's second Tempo project after Near Southside.

Upscale / lifestyle · 138 rooms

Fort Worth, Texas

Tempo by Hilton Fort Worth Near Southside

Filed for a six-story tower over Magnolia Green Park, this 155-room Tempo would become Near Southside's largest hotel — if Hilton ever confirms it.

Upscale / lifestyle (wellness-focused) · 155 rooms

Kansas City, Missouri

The Riff Hotel

Three conjoined 19th-century buildings on Admiral Boulevard are being converted into a suite-only hotel where each room takes its decor from a song, genre or artist, from Charlie Parker to The Beatles.

Boutique / lifestyle · 12 rooms

Glasgow, Scotland

Watt Brothers Hotel

A B-listed 1914 department store on Sauchiehall Street, empty since 2019, cleared planning for a rooftop-extended hotel conversion in March 2026 with no operator yet named.

Boutique

Tampa, Florida

Hotel ORA + Private Residences

A planned 39-story, 658-unit condo-hotel tower in downtown Tampa, sold largely to investors through an 8%-guaranteed lease-back program rather than operated as a conventionally flagged hotel.

Luxury (marketed as five-star) · 627 rooms

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Waylen

A 223-key Hyatt conversion of a century-old naval barracks that, more than two years after its announcement, has yet to break ground.

Luxury / boutique · 223 rooms

Seattle, Washington

Tempo by Hilton Seattle Downtown

A 23-story, 300-room Tempo tower has been on Hilton's books for Seattle's Denny Triangle since 2021, with still nothing built.

Lifestyle / Upscale · 300 rooms

Chicago, Illinois

1016 W. Lake Street Hotel, Fulton Market

A 143-room, net-zero-carbon hotel approved for Fulton Market in February 2024 has yet to break ground.

Boutique / Upscale · 143 rooms

Las Vegas, Nevada

Bally's Las Vegas

Bally's wants to replace the demolished Tropicana with a $3 billion, 3,000-room resort wrapped around a new Major League Baseball stadium — but a year on, the ballpark is rising far faster than the hotel.

Luxury · 3 rooms

San Francisco, California

570 Market Street Hotel

A 29-story hotel tower cleared its last legal hurdle in San Francisco's Financial District seven years after it was first proposed, still without a name, an operator, or a start date for construction.

Upscale / boutique · 211 rooms

San Diego, California

CH Projects Little Italy Hotel & Wellness Center

CH Projects' first ground-up hotel is stalled at the permit stage, waiting on a Little Italy corner it has been assembling since 2023.

Boutique / Lifestyle, wellness-focused · 68 rooms

Reno, Nevada

The Boulevard Reno Hotel

A 301-room hotel-casino with no operator yet named is set to rise on a demolished Reno car dealership, anchoring a $350 million soccer-stadium district.

Unconfirmed · 301 rooms

York, England

Zedwell York

A Grade II-listed 1907 department store on Coney Street, empty since TK Maxx left in 2022, is being converted into York's first windowless capsule hotel by Asif Aziz's Zedwell chain.

Upscale / lifestyle (adaptive reuse)

Victoria, British Columbia

780 Blanshard Street Hotel

Reliance Properties has stripped a condo tower from its plans and is now asking Victoria to approve a heritage-alteration permit for a standalone 126-room hotel inside the city's 1949 art-deco B.C. Power Commission building.

Unconfirmed — no brand or positioning has been announced · 126 rooms

Kansas City, Missouri

The Pennant, Tribute Portfolio Hotel

Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson is an equity partner in this 132-room Marriott Tribute Portfolio hotel rising beside the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the 18th & Vine District.

Upscale boutique · 132 rooms

Glasgow, Scotland

Motto by Hilton Glasgow

Hilton's lifestyle brand announced its UK debut on the Clyde in 2022 — four years on, the site is still an empty plot behind a construction fence.

Lifestyle / Upscale · 186 rooms

Detroit, Michigan

Merchants Building Hotel

A vacant 1922 terra-cotta tower on Broadway Street is being converted into a boutique hotel, with no brand and no fixed opening date yet attached to the project.

Boutique

York, England

Dakota York

A 140-room Dakota is rising on the site of a demolished 1960s office block, steps from York railway station, after councillors approved the scheme despite Historic England's objections over buried Roman remains.

Upscale / luxury · 140 rooms

New York, New York

RIU Plaza New York

RIU's first New York hotel is climbing a 54-story tower at Broadway and West 54th Street, on track to bring 673 rooms and two 300-seat restaurants to the northern edge of Times Square by 2027.

Upscale (RIU Plaza brand) · 673 rooms

New York, New York

The Lowell Modern

The family that owns the Upper East Side's Lowell Hotel is converting a 1960s Madison Avenue office tower into a 96-room companion property, adding nine floors and a new glass facade under New York's ULURP review.

Luxury (companion property to The Lowell Hotel, Upper East Side) · 96 rooms

Sydney, New South Wales

Florin Hotel

A AU$275 million rebuild is turning the 1936 former Australian headquarters of Universal Pictures at 499 Kent Street into a 228-room, 20-storey hotel for EVT's Independent Collection, complete with a glass-floored 'vertigo suite' and a rooftop infinity pool.

Luxury / lifestyle · 228 rooms

Birmingham, England

The Dean Birmingham

Birmingham's century-old Methodist hall, slated to become the city's most theatrical hotel — if the scaffolding ever comes down.

Boutique/Lifestyle · 150 rooms

Des Moines, Iowa

Hotel MoLo

A 1962 roadside motor lodge, gutted into apartments for a generation, is still fighting its way back to being a hotel — one delayed groundbreaking at a time.

Boutique

Gold Coast, Queensland

Trump International Hotel & Tower, Gold Coast

The Trump Organization's first Australian project, a proposed 91-storey Surfers Paradise tower, still lacks development approval and faces a 26,000-signature opposition petition.

Ultra-luxury · 285 rooms

Newcastle, England

Newcastle Helix, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel

A 198-room Marriott soft-brand hotel on the former Scottish & Newcastle Brewery site, rebranded from Moxy to Tribute Portfolio before it was even built.

Upscale lifestyle (Marriott soft brand) · 198 rooms

Wollongong, New South Wales

The Globe Wollongong

Described by council and press as Wollongong's first five-star hotel, this 236-room tower is under approval on a demolished RSL club site — with no name, brand or opening date confirmed yet.

Five-star / luxury · 236 rooms

Gold Coast, Queensland

Palm Beach Hotel

A $120 million hotel approved for a former Centrelink site in Palm Beach has no confirmed construction start more than three years on.

Luxury/upscale lifestyle · 126 rooms

Las Vegas, Nevada

Majestic Las Vegas

A non-gaming luxury tower on the old La Concha site, still pre-construction more than two decades after it was first announced

Ultra-luxury · 604 rooms

Orlando, Florida

W Orlando

A 400-room W tower paired with a 2,000-seat concert venue, next door to Universal's Epic Universe

Luxury lifestyle · 400 rooms

Aspen, Colorado

RH Guesthouse Aspen

A long-delayed conversion of Aspen's former Crystal Palace dinner theater into a 20-room RH boutique hotel

Luxury boutique · 20 rooms

Brisbane, Queensland

Hilton Garden Inn Brisbane City Centre North

A Spring Hill new-build that switched brands from Wyndham to Hilton before construction even began, still under way years after its original 2024 target

Upper-midscale/upscale select-service · 129 rooms

Vancouver, British Columbia

Le Germain Hotel Vancouver

Germain Hotels' first British Columbia property, converting a 1966 Coal Harbour office tower into a full-scale boutique hotel

Boutique/upscale

Brisbane, Queensland

Howard Smith Wharves Hotel

A 106-room boutique hotel approved for Brisbane's riverside dining precinct, part of a $500 million "HSW 2.0" expansion ahead of the 2032 Olympics

Boutique/upscale · 106 rooms

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hotel at 20 Washington Avenue South

A vacant Minoru Yamasaki-designed 1965 corporate headquarters, proposed as a 165-room hotel with a rooftop pool over the old mechanical penthouse

Upscale/lifestyle — developer has positioned it between Four Seasons and Hewing Hotel in market tier · 165 rooms

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The West Hotel (Commutator Building)

A Neri&Hu-designed North Loop hotel inside a historic brass foundry, stalled by two rounds of foreclosure since its original 2023 target

Luxury boutique · 123 rooms

Boston, Massachusetts

Hotel Alexandra

A fourth redevelopment attempt returns an 1875 Victorian Gothic landmark on the South End/Roxbury line to hotel use after roughly 125 years

Boutique/upscale · 68 rooms

Montreal, Quebec

StarCité Hotel (Olympic Park)

A hotel and conference centre designed by Provencher Roy would replace most of the StarCité cinema complex beside Olympic Stadium

Appears upscale/full-service — a spa, two restaurants and a large multi-use event space are planned — but with no operator confirmed, the formal segment can't be pinned down yet · 180 rooms

Montreal, Quebec

Hôtel Esplanade

A long-stalled Mile End new-build shows renewed activity after construction sat dormant for more than two years

Boutique/upscale · 30 rooms

Liverpool, England

Kings Waterfront Tower — five-star hotel, operator not yet announced

A planned 727-foot tower designed to become Liverpool's tallest building would pair a 212-room five-star hotel with 563 luxury residences

Luxury/Five-star (segment not yet confirmed by an operator) · 212 rooms

Auckland, Auckland

DoubleTree by Hilton Auckland, Albert Street

Hilton's DoubleTree brand debuts in Auckland inside a converted 1980s office tower, three years past its original opening target

Upscale · 231 rooms

Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio City Hotel, Tribute Portfolio

A mass-timber boutique hotel aims to give Cleveland's Ohio City neighborhood its first hotel bed

Boutique/Upscale · 129 rooms

Perth, Western Australia

Dorsett Perth

A glass-and-gold tower rises in Perth City Link as Far East Consortium's Dorsett brand makes its Western Australian debut

Upscale · 263 rooms

Birmingham, England

The Borough Buildings

A 1909 motor-trade showroom on John Bright Street could gain three storeys and 179 hotel rooms, if planners say yes.

Positioning not yet disclosed — plans describe a hotel with co-working space, aimed at the site's central location rather than a stated brand tier · 179 rooms

Bristol, England

Mary Le Port Hotel

A nine-room hotel promised for a long-empty High Street building whose most recent occupants were squatters, not guests.

Independent boutique · 9 rooms

Adelaide, South Australia

Grote Street Hotel

A vacant Australia Post sorting building anchors a $1.25 billion, five-tower precinct where its red-brick facade is slated to become a hotel lobby, though no operator has signed on yet.

Five-star / luxury · 220 rooms

Glasgow, Scotland

SWG3 Hotel

A music venue's own 'hotel for music lovers,' approved for construction next door but not yet under way.

Lifestyle/Boutique · 142 rooms

Cork

Ruby Hotel Cork

Munich's 'lean luxury' Ruby brand plans a second Irish hotel on a Cork city-centre site behind Lapps Quay

Upscale/Lifestyle · 180 rooms

Abu Dhabi

Al Nawras Island, LXR Hotels & Resorts

Hilton's all-villa LXR brand debuts in Abu Dhabi on a private island built around its own golf course

Luxury / All-villa resort · 80 rooms

Memphis, Tennessee

Blues Note Hotel

A 15-story, guitar-pool-topped hotel proposed across from FedExForum has gone silent for more than two years, with its zoning variance still unresolved.

Four-star / Luxury · 191 rooms

Detroit, Michigan

Second Huntington Place Convention Center Hotel

Detroit plans a second 600-room convention hotel next to Huntington Place, funded jointly by a private developer and the region's own convention authority.

Upscale / convention-focused

San Antonio, Texas

JW Marriott San Antonio Downtown

IBC Bank wants to turn its own 1983 office tower into a 300-room JW Marriott on the River Walk, a $164 million wager still waiting on the city's design review board.

Luxury

San Francisco, California

The Jackson, 530 Sansome Street

A 41-story tower planned for the edge of Jackson Square would carry San Francisco's first five-star hotel in three decades, but ground has yet to be broken.

Luxury · 200 rooms

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Cambria Hotel Colorado Springs – Air Force Academy

A four-story, roughly 100-room Cambria is rising in the Victory Ridge development north of Colorado Springs, scaled back from an original 115 rooms as borrowing and construction costs climbed.

Upscale

New York, New York

Crockfords New York

Genting is building a 1,200-room Crockfords casino-resort tower at Resorts World NYC in Queens, part of a $5.5 billion second-phase expansion that broke ground in July 2026 with no opening date yet attached.

Ultra-luxury (Crockfords) · 1 rooms

New York, New York

The Torch

A 52-story supertall is rising over Times Square at 740 Eighth Avenue, topped by a torch-shaped glass spire, a public observation deck and a drop ride above an 825-room hotel — but as of August 2026, no hotel brand has been named.

Not confirmed. Presumed upscale/luxury given the letter of intent with an unnamed luxury hotel chain and the scale of the observation-deck attraction, but no brand, flag, or star tier has been announced. · 825 rooms

Toronto, Ontario

Andaz Toronto – Yorkville

A 160-room Andaz was meant to open inside 'The One,' Toronto's tallest tower, back in 2022; the tower's original developer went bankrupt, its replacement builder cancelled every presale contract in late 2025, and the hotel is now realistically years away.

Luxury / lifestyle boutique · 160 rooms

Miami, Florida

Hyatt Centric Wynwood

Wynwood's first full-service branded lifestyle hotel is planned two blocks from the Wynwood Walls: an eight-story, 116-room Hyatt Centric from developers Robert Finvarb Companies and The Restaurant People, with construction expected to start in spring 2026 and opening reported anywhere from 2027 to late 2028.

Upscale lifestyle (Hyatt Centric brand) · 116 rooms

Miami, Florida

Dream Miami at Riverside Wharf

Dream Hotel Group's flagship Florida property will anchor Riverside Wharf, a $350 million waterfront complex on the Miami River — 165 rooms, a rooftop nightclub and a superyacht marina, breaking ground in December 2025 with completion now projected for fall 2028.

Upper-upscale lifestyle (Dream Hotel Group) · 165 rooms

Miami, Florida

Legacy Hotel & Residences

Ennismore's Morgans Originals brand is due to make its US debut atop a 50-story Miami Worldcenter tower that has not risen past its 16th floor since March 2024.

Upscale lifestyle · 219 rooms

Melbourne, Victoria

voco South Melbourne

A 171-room voco announced in 2020 for the northern end of St Kilda Road has yet to open, missed its original 2023 target by years, and still has no confirmed date.

Upscale · 171 rooms

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia

Aloft Mount Vernon Triangle

A hotel plan first filed in 2016 is still working its way through DC's preservation review, built around a 1946 deli facade that has never before housed a hotel.

Upscale / lifestyle · 152 rooms

Melbourne, Victoria

So/ Melbourne

Accor's So/ brand is making its Australian debut in a heritage cannery building on the northern edge of Melbourne's CBD, with construction under way years behind the project's original 2023 target.

Luxury lifestyle · 289 rooms

Dallas, Texas

Cityplace Tower Hotel

A luxury hotel has been promised inside this 42-story Dallas office tower since 2019, and as of August 2026 it still has neither a confirmed brand nor a start date.

Luxury · 223 rooms

Boston, Massachusetts

New Seaport Hotel (391 D Street)

A 438-room all-electric hotel is approved for Boston's Seaport District, though its brand and market segment remain undecided

Segment genuinely unsettled: the developer has described the hotel only as "select service," pitched as more rate-approachable than its luxury Seaport neighbors, rather than as an upscale full-service property — flag for a future editorial call once a brand is named · 438 rooms

Mooloolaba, Queensland

Aria Mooloolaba

A 16-storey, 201-room foreshore tower approved as the Sunshine Coast's first international-standard 5-star hotel, still awaiting a builder and an operator

Luxury · 201 rooms

Nashville, Tennessee

Dolly Parton's SongTeller Hotel

Dolly Parton's 245-room storytelling hotel opens with a 20,000-square-foot museum of her life.

Lifestyle · 245 rooms

Townsville, Queensland

Hilton Garden Inn Townsville

Hilton's first branded hotel in Townsville, a modular build next to the 25,000-seat Queensland Country Bank Stadium

Upscale · 190 rooms

San Jose, California

Moxy San Jose Downtown

A 19-story, 272-room Moxy-branded tower cleared for downtown San Jose after years of legal challenges, still with no construction start date confirmed.

Lifestyle · 272 rooms

Maroochydore, Queensland

Crowne Plaza Maroochydore

IHG's second Sunshine Coast project with developer Felix Capital, a 180-room conference-focused tower approved for Ocean Street.

Upper-upscale · 180 rooms

Noosa, Queensland

The Calile Hotel Noosa

The Malouf family's Brisbane favourite gets a second, larger site in Noosa Heads, approved as the town's first five-star hotel development in 30 years.

Luxury · 153 rooms

Noosa, Queensland

Noosa Springs Boutique Hotel

A 69-room wellness-focused hotel approved for the grounds of the existing Noosa Springs Golf & Spa Resort, after nearly four years of council review.

Luxury boutique / wellness · 69 rooms

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Hotel Indigo Canberra

IHG's fast-growing boutique brand joins Canberra as the lifestyle half of the 'One Binara' redevelopment.

Boutique lifestyle

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

InterContinental Canberra

A rooftop InterContinental lounge with Parliament House views, replacing Canberra's Crowne Plaza.

Luxury