Wyndham Updates New Properties in Pipeline

Wyndham Hotel Group reported that 35 Wyndham Hotels and Resorts and Wingate by Wyndham hotels representing 5,668 rooms currently are under construction worldwide. There are an additional 122 hotels representing nearly 17,000 rooms in the Wyndham and Wingate development pipeline, bringing the total number of Wyndham branded hotels open and in the pipeline to 395.

Five Wyndham hotels are under construction in Manhattan, three of which are scheduled to open later this year. The first Wyndham Garden hotel in New York will be a 124-room hotel on 24th Street in the Chelsea district, to be followed by a 115-room hotel on Maiden Lane in the financial district and a 228-room hotel on 36th Street in Midtown. A full-service, 280-room Wyndham hotel on 26th Street is scheduled to open next year and a 108-room hotel on Bowery Street in 2010.

Construction of the 400-room luxury Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Hotel and Spa at Bonnet Creek Resort, adjacent to Walt Disney World at Lake Buena Vista, Fla., is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2010. It is the first mixed-use development undertaken by parent company Wyndham Worldwide and will be managed by Wyndham Hotel Management Inc.

Other Wyndham hotels and resorts that are under construction include Cap Cana, Dominican Republic; Pirate’s Bay, Turks and Caicos Islands; Isla Margarita, Venezuela; Shanghai and Xiamen, China; Centennial, Colo.; Tulsa South, Okla.; and Polanco, Mexico.

The all-new-construction Wingate by Wyndham brand soon will open its first property in Latin America, a 137-room hotel in Chihuahua, Mexico. There are another 20 Wingate properties currently under construction in the United States, from Las Vegas to Spokane, Wash.