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A luxe Omni Hotel is coming to downtown Raleigh

The City of Raleigh staff is entering into negotiations with Omni Hotels & Resorts to help develop the 550-room Omni Raleigh Hotel in downtown.

A rendering of the Omni Hotel.

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Rendering provided by Omni Hotels + Visit Raleigh

Get ready for luxe staycations. Raleigh landed the hotel group Omni Hotels & Resort for a new 550-room four-star convention hotel, expected to open in 2027.

Located across from the Raleigh Convention Center and Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts on a one-acre lot, this development joins the 1,790 hotel rooms planned for downtown. To put these numbers into context: Dreamville music festival’s 100,000 attendees sold out every hotel in downtown and generated $6.7 million in Wake County this year.

The Omni Raleigh Hotel will feature a rooftop pool, a premium spa, 55,000 sqft of meeting space, and five food + bev concepts as part of the $425 million convention center expansion.

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