A new luxury hotel, boasting a rooftop pool, beer hall and two restaurants, broke ground this week right in the middle of the Gaslamp Quarter.
Construction crews started Wednesday on Pendry San Diego, a 12-story, 317-room hotel developed by Robert Green.
Bordered by Fifth and Sixth avenues along J Street, Pendry will try to capitalize on tourists seeking to stay in the heart of San Diego’s action.
Green hopes to make the new hotel into a food and night life destination downtown.
“A development of this caliber, which will provide so many important jobs and economic benefits to the community, has not been undertaken in downtown San Diego for many years,” he said.
Pendry will feature a lounge, spa, fitness room and plenty of meeting space, in addition to the beer hall and restaurants.
But eager guests will have a while to wait. The new hotel does not open until 2016.
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Robert Green's company has ventured into the hotel realm before by building the Park Hyatt Resort Aviara.
Pendry San Diego will be managed by Montage Hotels and Resorts, which runs hotels in Laguna Beach, Beverly Hills and Hawaii.
