Hampton Inn & Suites will soon establish a new $17 million - 137 room location on the corner of Lafayette and Main Streets in Downtown Baton Rouge directly behind Kress at Third and Main.

The hotel being built by Winsor/Aughtry Co. and local developer Richard Preis will also include 930 square feet of meeting rooms, a fitness center, a board room seating 14, and a seating area over looking Main and Lafayette Streets.

The hotel will be the third major hotel to be built or renovated on Lafayette Street. The Hampton Inn joins Hotel Indigo the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center Hotel to create a lodging corridor along Lafayette Street.

The hotels offer easy access to our attractions and restaurants, as well as Capitol Park and other related facilities in the CBD.

The current timeline sets completion of the seven-story hotel for late 2012.