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St. Paul Officials Weigh Need for New Downtown Hotel

ST. PAUL-The city has lost out on a variety of conventions because it doesn't have a large enough hotel or enough rooms, according to preliminary studies.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on February 12, 2004

ST. PAUL-After building Xcel Energy Center as the home for the new Minnesota Wild professional hockey team a major new Science Museum nearby, and expanding the convention center next to the Xcel, some St. Paul leaders think the Downtown is ready for another hotel. It would be the first new hotel in the market in more than 20 years, and it would come despite struggles to keep the hotels already in Downtown St. Paul filled.

At a recent meeting, members of the executive committee of the St. Paul Convention & Visitors Bureau agreed that the time is right to look into the need for a new hotel–a move that should spawn a study on the subject. But the need is there: Downtown St. Paul hotels sometimes aren’t big enough hotel or the rooms to accommodate the needs of visitors.

The last new hotel in downtown St. Paul was the 210-room Embassy Suites, which opened in 1983. Since that time, St. Paul’s share of the region’s hotel business has fallen sharply. One hotel after another has risen in downtown Minneapolis, along the I-494 corridor in Bloomington and throughout the suburbs.

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