Carolinas Hotel Development, Construction & Transactions

Upscale and upper-midscale projects lead hotel development tracked across the Carolinas, while individual convention-center and luxury proposals add substantial room counts. Covering North Carolina and South Carolina, Lodging Development tracks 126 projects totaling 17,189 rooms, alongside 49 openings delivering 6,314 rooms over the latest 24-month reporting period. Representative projects range from Raleigh's 600-room Omni to a planned JW Marriott in Greenville. Transaction activity also spans both states, with 61 qualifying hotel sales tracked during the separate 18-month transaction reporting window.

The 600-room Omni Hotel Raleigh Convention Center, under construction by Omni Hotels & Resorts, is the largest among the projects highlighted here. Across North Carolina and South Carolina, upscale leads the tracked pipeline with 45 projects, followed by upper midscale with 26. Lodging Development tracks 126 projects totaling 17,189 rooms. Other projects currently tracked by Lodging Development include Drury Hotels Company's 400-room Drury Plaza Hotel Myrtle Beach in final planning and Auro Hotels' planned 335-room JW Marriott Greenville at the Bowater Building. Daly Seven's 249-room Courtyard | Residence Inn Cary at the Arboretum is under construction. The Greenville proposal is a notable individual luxury project within a pipeline containing four luxury developments.

August 2026 openings include the 124-room Hilton Garden Inn Steele Creek Charlotte and 120-room Home2 Suites Raleigh Crabtree Valley. The higher-tier, 70-room Balladeer Hotel, Tribute Portfolio opened in May. Across the Carolinas, Lodging Development records 49 openings totaling 6,314 rooms over the latest 24-month period. Recent additions also include StudioRes properties in Raleigh North, Wilmington and Fayetteville West, each with 124 rooms. South Carolina's additions include the 160-room Hampton Inn | Home2 Suites Aiken and 124-room StudioRes by Marriott Columbia Harbison, both opened in June 2026.

Lodging Development tracked 61 hotel transactions of $10 million or more across North Carolina and South Carolina during the 18-month period ending six months before November 1, 2026. Documented prices for 36 transactions total $1,053,717,121; that figure does not represent the value of all tracked sales. Among the highlighted transactions, Highline Hospitality Partners acquired the 200-room Westin Poinsett, Greenville for $48.7 million in March 2026. That month, the 353-room Sheraton Raleigh Hotel sold to White Lodging Services Corp. for $27,754,500. April activity included Axia Hotel Group's $15.2 million purchase of the 112-room Cambria Hotel Mount Pleasant - Charleston, illustrating acquisition activity across multiple Carolinas destinations.