Hotels

DENVER-The $40-million, 196-room J.W. Marriott is expected to command average room rates of about $170 per night when it opens in the spring of 2004 on the Sears Roebuck & Co. site.

CHERRY HILL, NJ-The Growth Properties asset, located in the metro Philadelphia market and formerly operating under the Sheraton flag, reopens for guests today after a $5 million makeover.

BASTROP, TX-The Dallas-based Woodbine Development team is keeping to the schedule as work proceeds on pre-development design, a marketing study and permitting for the 635-acre project.

DALLAS-August will pass without LaSalle Hotel Properties and Le Meridien sitting down at the conference table, as ordered by the Dallas courts. Conflicts on both sides delay talks as they jockey for a mutually acceptable date.

IRVINE, CA-Timeshare developer MPTV Inc. has renewed its permits to renovate five buildings at its Lake Tropicana timeshare resort near Las Vegas, which is planned to include 144 apartments in 22 buildings, a tennis court, a spa, swimming pools and other recreation facilities. MPTV is seeking funding to complete the project.

ORLANDO-Osceola Circuit Judge Jeffords D. Miller has ruled the 50-member Orlando/Kissimmee Hotel Motel Association can't interfere with contract negotiations the county is having with Orlando-based Xentury City Development Co. to erect a $100 million, 500,000-sf convention center on Osceola Parkway and International Drive South, minutes from Walt Disney World.

ORLANDO-For the week ended June 15, Smith Travel Research shows the Orlando market down 2.8% from the same period in 2001, but ahead of nine other destination areas except New York and Chicago.

LA JOLLA, CA-The Los Angeles-based developer expects to open a 210-room resort adjacent the University of California at San Diego. Completion of the Blackhorse Hotel is slated for 2004.