page_title: Washington Marriott Marquis
section_title: Construction of the hotel
hierarchical_section_title: Washington Marriott Marquis / Construction of the hotel
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking southwest at the construction site for the Washington Marriott Marquis hotel in Washington, D.C., in the United States in August 2011. Construction on the hotel had been in progress for about a year, with excavation having reached about 50 feet (15&#160;m) feet below ground. Completion of the project was scheduled for May 2014. 9th Street NW runs through the image in the foreground off to the left. L Street NW runs into the foreground from the right. The photographer was standing just in front of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. A tunnel/concourse will lead from the Washington Marriott Marquis to the convention center, linking the two. The building still standing to the far left is the headquarters of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry (the Pipefitters union), a national trade union in the U.S. It was constructed in 1916 and designed in a Modernist-modified Chicago School style by Louis Sullivan. The cornerstone was laid by President Woodrow Wilson. It served as the first headquarters of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the largest trade union federation in the U.S. and the forerunner to the modern AFL-CIO. The AFL vacated the structure in 1956 after its merger with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The Pipefitters union purchased it. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the facade of the building is being incorporated into the Washington Marriott Marquis as a preservation effort.
context_page_description: Marriott Marquis Washington, DC is a luxury hotel located on Massachusetts Avenue NW, in NW, Washington, D.C., United States. The hotel is connected to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center across 9th Street NW via an underground concourse.
  The Washington Marriott Marquis is considered a "convention center headquarters hotel", designed both to provide lodging for attendees at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center across the street, and to augment the convention center by providing smaller, more versatile meeting rooms. The hotel has 100,000 square feet of meeting room space, which includes a 30,000-square-foot main ballroom and two smaller 10,800-square-foot ballrooms. The building is topped by a 18,800-square-foot glass-encased penthouse, and a 5,200-square-foot outdoor event terrace.
  The hotel is owned by Capstone Development, the District of Columbia, ING Clarion Real Estate Investment, Marriott International, and Quadrangle Development Corporation. The operator is Marriott International. It opened on May 1, 2014, and has 1,175 rooms, a lobby with multi-story atrium, and four dining outlets on the first floor.
context_section_description: WCSA's bonds reached the market in November 2010. The bond issues included $66.5 million of tax-exempt Build America Bonds (BAB) recovery zone facility bonds, $90 million of taxable BAB recovery zone economic development bonds, and $20.1 million of BAB direct payment bonds—all of which went to fund the convention headquarters hotel. Another $71.8 million of taxable bonds refinanced existing WCSA debt.
  Ground was broken for Marriott Marquis Washington, DC on November 10, 2010. Officials announced that the four-star hotel would open in the spring of 2014. Construction was expected to take a full year longer than usual due to the deep excavation needed for the underground levels and the connecting tunnel with the convention center. The cost of the structure was estimated at $520 million.
  The business climate for the Marriott Marquis Washington, DC improved dramatically after ground was broken. On May 3, 2011, the hotel received its first convention-related business when the Association of the United States Army agreed to take space in the hotel for 2014, 2015, and 2016. By August 2012, the hotel secured 15 contracts for about 210,000 room nights through 2021. In September 2011, Marriott announced it and Capstone Development would build a Courtyard by Marriott and a Residence Inn by Marriott on Marriott-owned land north of the Marriott Marquis. Together, the hotels would provide 500 rooms. Marriott asked for $35 million in TIF funds from the city for the $172 million project, but the city (which was near its borrowing cap) said it was "not entertaining new TIF applications right now." In June 2012, Marriott signed a $210 million contract to operate four hotels owned by Gaylord Entertainment. The agreement gave Marriott control over the Gaylord Resort Hotel at National Harbor, helping to eliminate that hotel as a competitor for the Washington Marriott Marquis (or at least reduce the competitive impact). Additionally, PKF Hospitality Research reported in July 2012 that demand for hotel rooms in Washington, D.C., was projected to outpace supply through 2016, even with the addition of the Marriott Marquis Washington, DC and other planned and under-construction hotels.
  Marriott Marquis Washington, DC began to rise above ground in August 2012, halfway through its construction schedule. Although engineers still had 15 feet (4.6 m) to dig, most of the foundations and below-ground ballroom and meeting room space were complete. (Officials said the hotel had to dig a total of 90 feet (27 m) below ground). Construction officials said a platform would be built at grade which would support continuing construction below ground as well as construction above it. Marriott was given permission to place 17 mobile trailers on its unused lots north of the construction site in November 2012. The trailers served as temporary offices for the construction foremen and leaders. A grand opening date of May 1, 2014, was set.
  Dan Nadeau, the hotel's general manager (hired on March 21, 2013) told the Washington Business Journal in mid-April 2013 that the hotel was on track for bookings and to open on time. The hotel also reported booking the annual meetings of the American Academy of Family Physicians (6,500 total attendees) for October 2014, the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (5,000 total attendees) for July 2015, and the American Dental Association (40,000 total attendees) for November 2015.
caption: Construction continues on the Marriott Marquis Washington, DC in August 2011.
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