HOUSTON
City officials here are getting ready to roll out an ambitious growth plan designed to court the meetings market. The 2025 Master Plan takes a long-range approach to the area, which officials hope to brand as the "Convention District."
The plan focuses on three main components: new hotel rooms, more amenities and an expansion of the convention center, which would happen once the other elements were complete.
A developer has hired a consulting firm to help craft a formal request seeking a developer to build a convention center hotel with at least 1,000 rooms.
The property is one of three hotels proposed in the master plan. The overall plan calls for a "four corners" hotel concept, which places properties near each corner of the convention center. One of those -- the Hilton Americas -- already exists.
