AC Hotel by Marriott at CityCentre — Houston

Anchor Construction broke ground in June on a 153-room AC Hotel by Marriott inside CityCentre, the mixed-use district in west Houston. It’s a $19 million, six-story building of roughly 86,000 square feet, due to open in late 2027.

PA Hospitality is developing it. DLR Group designed it, with Telios as MEP engineer.

Project Scope

The building carries the full-service version of the AC brand: pool, bar, fitness center and meeting space. That pushes the program past the select-service box a 153-key hotel would otherwise fit into. Six stories at 86,000 square feet works out to roughly 560 gross square feet per key, on the higher end for the brand and consistent with the added amenity area.

Infill hotel work inside an operating mixed-use district is mostly a logistics exercise. CityCentre runs restaurants, retail and offices around the clock, so staging, crane placement and concrete deliveries all get negotiated against tenants who have leases and customers. The construction fence, not the structure, is usually the hardest drawing to get approved.

Why It Matters

Houston’s upscale hotel inventory outside the Galleria and downtown is thin, and the west side has drawn corporate demand that historically drove into the loop for a room. A 153-key upscale product inside an existing walkable district is a fairly low-risk read on that gap.

It’s also a reminder that not every worthwhile project is a megaproject. A $19 million hotel employs a full trade stack for eighteen months, and it’s the kind of job that keeps mid-size Houston contractors and their subs working between the refinery turnarounds and the data center builds that dominate the headlines.

Project Team & Details