Downtown Austin cranking cranes on Aloft and Element hotels

​​​AUSTIN – White Lodging has started work on two new hotels —
an Aloft and an Element — and both will be located at East Seventh St.
and Congress Ave.

The new Aloft and Element hotels planned for
downtown Austin will add about 400 hotel rooms to the city’s inventory
and are expected to open by summer 2017.

White Lodging — the
Austin area’s largest hotel operator, adding more than 1,300 rooms this
year — already has more than 20 hotels in Central Texas.

The trendy, upscale Aloft and Element brands are both affiliated with Connecticut-based Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide.​