Loews Hotels has announced plans for a major redevelopment project in Arlington’s entertainment district. The company intends to demolish the Sheraton Arlington Hotel, which was built in the late 1980s, and replace it with a new convention hotel called Americana by Loews Hotels at 1300 Ballpark Way. The planned hotel will have 507 rooms, including 39 suites, and more than 83,000 square feet of meeting and event space. It will also feature a 10,000-square-foot event barn.
The Sheraton Arlington Hotel is scheduled for implosion in early June. Construction on the new Americana by Loews Hotels is expected to begin later in the summer. The company projects that the new hotel will open in late 2028 or early 2029. Alex Tisch, President and CEO of Loews Hotels, stated that the total investment is expected to exceed $500 million.
The redevelopment aims to address increasing demand for hotel rooms and large meeting spaces in Arlington. Tisch noted that the area’s proximity to Dallas, Fort Worth, and DFW International Airport has made it attractive for corporate events, including those from Fortune 500 companies.
“We bought the Sheraton property thinking that there may be a greater opportunity in the future,” Tisch said. He described the site as one of the last major development opportunities in Arlington’s entertainment district.
The project will free up about 13 acres of land. A new parking garage will serve both the hotel and nearby venues; only about half of the land is currently planned for use by the hotel and garage. The rest remains unassigned at this time, but Tisch mentioned that Loews has flexibility regarding zoning and financing for potential future developments.
The city of Arlington is supporting this project through a public-private partnership approved by City Council in late 2023. Under this arrangement, Arlington will contribute $40 million toward development costs and may provide over $57 million in grants across 25 years if certain performance benchmarks are met. Loews will provide initial funding for construction.
Americana by Loews takes its name from an iconic former property: the Americana Hotel in Bal Harbour, Florida, which opened in 1956.
This location is less than a mile from two other recent Loews projects: the Arlington Hotel & Convention Center—a property with 888 rooms that opened between Globe Life Field and Choctaw Stadium earlier this year—and Live! by Loews Hotel, which opened with 300 rooms in 2019.
Upon completion of this latest development, Loews’ properties within Arlington will total nearly 1,700 rooms and offer more than 374,000 square feet of meeting space.
