Courtyard Marriott coming to Downtown BR

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A $20 million Courtyard by Marriott for downtown Baton Rouge was officially announced Monday.

The previously reported hotel, located at 260 Third Street, will have an estimated 147 rooms and be owned by developer Windsor Aughtry Co., based in Greenville, South Carolina.

Nashville, Tennessee-based Hospitality America will manage the hotel, scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2016.

Plans are for the hotel to have about 2,000 square feet of meeting space, an exercise room and a business center. There will be about 1,500 square feet of retail space on the first floor available for lease.

Windsor Aughtry developed the Hampton Inn & Suites in downtown Baton Rouge. Hospitality America is the Hampton Inn’s management company.

Representatives of Windsor Aughtry and Hospitality America participated in the Courtyard by Marriott announcement Monday with Mayor-President Kip Holden and Downtown Development District officials.

The site for the hotel is owned by Third Street Acquisition LLC, according to records at the East Baton Rouge Clerk of Court’s Office. Tom Adamek and Gordon LeBlanc Jr., partners in Stonehenge Capital, own Third Street Acquisition.

260 Third St. was formerly the site of the Istrouma Hotel. The hotel was demolished in March 1969, eight years after closing. Capitol Bank and Trust Co. bought the hotel in 1966 with plans for a new multistory bank building. But those plans were abandoned, and the site became a parking lot. The new hotel will pay tribute to the property’s history by having a courtyard named after the Istrouma Hotel.

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