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WATCH ABOVE: Edmonton has a new luxury hotel in the downtown core. The JW Marriott hotel held its grand opening Thursday morning. Vinesh Pratap was there – Aug 1, 2019
Downtown Edmonton’s newest luxury hotel is now open, right in the heart of ICE District.
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Located on the corner of 102 Street and 104 Avenue, the JW Marriott is connected to Rogers Place.
The view as you walk into Edmonton’s JW Marriott hotel.
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The luxury hotel has 346 rooms and 22,000 square feet of meeting and conference space. Prices for rooms start at around $200 and go up from there. The 1,800-square-foot presidential suite, for example, costs a whopping $4,500 per night.
Hotel management said Thursday that the hotel is pretty well booked for the next several months.
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The Edmonton location is Canada’s third JW Marriott property, and includes local touches, including conference rooms name after iconic Edmonton Oilers alumni.
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The Mark Messier meeting room at Edmonton's JW Marriott hotel in downtown.
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A living wall located in one of the JW Marriott's meeting spaces.
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The hotel also offers a wellness facility, spa and fitness club. There are four restaurants and bars in the hotel, including a five-star steak and seafood restaurant, an all-day eater, a cocktail bar and a lobby bar.
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An ice rink is even planned, scheduled to open in 2020.
“You take a step back and you look at what’s been accomplished in the last six years,” Tim Shipton with the Oilers Entertainment Group said.
“We broke ground on Rogers Place in March of 2014, and you fast forward to Aug. 1, 2019 and it’s been a remarkable transformation for our city. A heck of a lot of time and effort and energy has gone into opening the arena. But now we’re in the next chapter of this vision for the ICE District, and this is a huge day for us and, quite frankly, a huge day for the city.”
Above the hotel are 31 floors of residential space, including 262 condo units.
The JW Marriott tower stands at 55 stories, or 190 metres. By comparison, the nearby Stantec Tower tops off at 66 stories, or 251 metres.
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Watch below: The JW Marriott building was topped off in May 2018.