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Article: Big hotel under construction to lure more business to San Diego: county leading California with some 3,000 rooms.
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- July 24, 2006
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Building cranes and hard-hat crews are fast at work completing construction on a slew of hotels in Southern California, and San Diego County is apparently seeing the greatest amount of activity.
In the first half of the year, seven hotels were under construction in the county with a total of 2,685 rooms--the highest in the state, according to Atlas Hospitality Group's Mid-Year Hotel Development Survey.
The 1,190-room Hilton San Diego Convention Center Hotel also tops the list of the largest hotels being built.
During the like year-ago period, the county counted three properties with 468 rooms under construction.
Altogether, 9,437 hotel ...