AUSTIN, Texas
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has announced it will manage a new city center hotel in Austin, Texas slated to open in 2015. The Fairmont Austin will be located directly east of the Austin Convention Center.
The $350 million concept will be crafted to accommodate Fairmont’s design and service aesthetics. For example, the planned number of rooms will likely be reduced from 1,035 to approximately 1,000 – allowing for larger guestrooms and suites, explains Todd Runkle, managing director of the architecture firm overseeing the project, Gensler Austin.
The 50-story hotel, which features over 70,000 square feet of function space, will rise approximately 580 feet, making it the second largest structure on downtown Austin’s skyline, which is currently dominated by the 56-story, 680-foot Austonian. The project will mark Fairmont’s second hotel in Texas and join The Fairmont Dallas, located in the heart of the Downtown Arts District.
“For over a century, Fairmont has been host to legendary meetings and special events across the globe and we are excited to bring our broad range of experience in the meetings arena to this project,” said Jennifer Fox, President, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. “Austin is currently seeing tremendous interest and growth in the convention market and with its reputation as a dynamic, vibrant capital city will be a great addition to our portfolio.”
