Austin Marriott Downtown — Photo by White Lodging

An official groundbreaking of the 613-room Austin Marriott Downtown took place on January 30 with White Lodging executives and city leaders. The hotel, located adjacent to the AustinConvention Center, is scheduled to open in the summer of 2020.

The full-service, 31-story Marriott is at the corner of Cesar Chavez and San Jacinto, and will offer spectacular views of the University of Texas campus, the State Capitol and downtown Austin's skyline. 

ogether, the two properties have more than 1,600 rooms and nearly 180,000 square feet of meeting space, which will be within two blocks of the convention center. There are only a handful of other cities in the country that offer this amount of rooms and meeting space in the heart of their city's centers, and an even smaller number that have one sales organization with direct sales impact over multiple hotels.

The Austin Marriott Downtown will have 64,000 square feet of meeting, exhibit and entertainment space, three bars and a street-level full-service restaurant. It will also feature an exhibit hall with floor-to-ceiling windows along a 170-foot glass wall.

The seventh-floor pool deck will feature private cabanas with ceiling fans, TV and private waiters, plus private seating areas with individual fire pits. The M Club will have its own private outdoor terrace for VIP guests.

Guests will also be able to keep their vehicles out of the elements in the self-contained 257-space underground parking garage.

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