Confirming a long-festering rumor, the Portland-based brand announced in August that it's moving a hotel — and a Stumptown Coffee — into an art deco building in the Warehouse District. Local firm Eskew+Dumez+Ripple is overseeing the renovation, which includes the building next door. The hotel is under construction currently and slated to open mid-2016. [Image: Google Maps]

The long-talked about plans to redevelop the World Trade Center are finally in motion: a bunch of local and national investors and developers are planning to turn the 33-story building into a 350-room hotel with 76 luxury condos. The hotel is slated to be complete in 2018. [Photo: Wally Gobetz via Flickr]

In July the City Planning Commission rejected plans for the hotel, which violates height restrictions for the neighborhood, but the City Council OK'd them a month later. Why? They're hoping Virgin remembers New Orleans' kindness when they think about bringing their airlines to new cities. [Image: via Mathes Brierre Architects]

Earlier this month Dallas developer NewcrestImage purchased the former University of New Orleans building on Canal Street downtown, and the plan is to develop the building into a "dual-branded" Marriott Hotel housing a 105-room TownePlace Suites by Marriott and a 78-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott. The hotels are slated to open December 2016.[Image: via Louisiana Commercial Database]

With the original plans to turn the building into affordable housing scuttled, the Maryland-based Baywood Hotels announced they will be developing the 14-story Oil & Gas building — which recently housed Club Ampersand — on Tulane Avenue into an outpost of the Hilton brand. Construction on the Canopy hotel, another brand geared toward young travelers, began in June. [Image: via Canal Street Beat/Hilton Hotels]

Developers Blake Jones and David Gindin scooped up the vacant, neglected building that formerly housed the Audubon Hotel to develop it into a 30-room hotel with a bar and coffee shop. The City Planning Commission voted to recommend to City Council that they grant the project a conditional use permit. [Image: via Canal Street Beat/Nola.gov]

The 132-room "European-style" hotel going up across the street from the new University Medical Center in Mid-City got the City Council OK in June. [Image: HMS Architects, via New Orleans One Stop App]

Connecticut developer Slumber Corners is converting the Rault Center, which suffered a fatal fire in 1972, into an outpost of the boutique hotel brand. Construction began in April. [Image via Slumber Corners NOLA]

The plan to convert a Warehouse District parking lot into a $35 million, 178-room hotel was initially controversial because it was going to exceed the area's height limits. After reducing the project's height at the last minute, City Council voted to approve it in July. Site preparation has been underway for the last three weeks, with opening scheduled for the spring of 2017. [Image: Google Maps]

Plans to build a Marriott-branded Moxy hotel at the former Bonded Carbon and Ribbon HQ in the CBD has been met with resistance from neighborhood and preservation groups, city agencies and just about everyone else. After the CBD Architectural Review Committee critiques proposals for the project's design, the developers are consulting with the project architect about the changes.

Developers Nathalie Jordi and Ari Heckman are converting the former church in the Marigny into a boutique hotel and community center. The hotel is slated to open in 2017. [Image: courtesy Nathalie Jordi]