Baton Rouge
- The Baton Rouge River Center (225.389.3030) is adding 22,000 square feet of prefunction space, including nine breakout rooms. The total number of breakout rooms will be 17 by fall 2011.
- The Hotel Indigo Baton Rouge Downtown (225.343.1515) is scheduled to open in January 2011 with 93 rooms and a boardroom for small meetings.
- The 200-room Pinnacle Casino Baton Rouge (702.541.7777) is scheduled to open in fall 2011. The property will feature a 30,000-square-foot gaming floor, an event center with concert seating for up to 1,400 people or banquet seating for up to 800, and outdoor festival grounds with a capacity for up to 2,500 people.
- A 254-room Marriott Renaissance Hotel (225.383.1825) is scheduled for completion in fall 2011 with 10,000 square feet of meeting space.
Shreveport/Bossier City
- Located just steps from the Louisiana Boardwalk, Louisiana's largest lifestyle, outlet shopping and entertainment destination, the Courtyard by Marriott Shreveport-Bossier City/Louisiana Boardwalk (318.742.8300) opened in March with 128 guest rooms and meeting space for up to 60 people.
- Hampton Inn & Suites Shreveport/South (318.798.1320) opened earlier this year with 84 rooms and roughly 400 square feet of meeting space.
- The Lakehouse at Villaggio (318.510.2218) is a new event venue set amid a village of Tuscan-style buildings, gardens and courtyards, with views of Lake Villaggio and the Villaggio Clock Tower. A boutique hotel may be built next to the Lakehouse, but plans have not been set.
- CoHabitat (318.759.7997) is a new kind of work environment where people who might normally work independently from home, a cafe or a hotel room could meet. Located on Shreveport's historic riverfront, CoHabitat provides high-speed Wi-Fi, locally brewed coffee, conference room space and outdoor seating.