Orange County had 37 hotels with 6,705 rooms under construction or in the planning stage at the end of last year, a report by Irvine-based Atlas Hospitality Group Inc. said.
The hotel consultancy and brokerage said 12 hotels with 2,461 rooms were under construction and that 4,234 rooms at 25 properties were in the planning stage.
Last year, three hotels with 606 rooms opened, slightly below 2014’s four hotels with 699 rooms, Atlas said.
The largest hotel under construction at year-end—the 603-room Great Wolf Lodge in Garden Grove—opened Feb. 19.
The construction and hotel development plans mirror statewide numbers that show nearly 600 hotels with 90,000 rooms under construction or in the planning stage.
“California is experiencing a hotel development boom, which will continue for at least the next two to three years,” said Atlas President Alan Reay.
—Paul Hughes
