From the Southern California Market Report: The Los Angeles hotel market isn’t huge by comparison with that of New York or Chicago, but developers appear to be intent on rectifying that. With nearly 100 hotels planned, many of them for the city’s central business district, some market watchers are starting to talk about oversupply.
Yet the hotel companies themselves clearly remain bullish on L.A.’s prospects, particularly in the downtown area. Some 5,468 keys out of a total of 11,120 in the pipeline for Los Angeles County are planned for DTLA, according to an analysis by The Real Deal in late August 2016 that included proposed projects as well as hotels that were under construction. [more]