NEW ORLEANS— Winingder, a local landowner here and one of the original developers of Jazzland, has another grand plan for eastern New Orleans: a $35 million to $40 million, 300-suite resort hotel and conference center on Lake Forest Boulevard adjacent to the parks front entrance, according to a report in New Orleans CityBusiness. The resort will have a restaurant, 20,000 square feet of meeting space and a planned golfing arrangement with nearby Eastover Country Club, said the paper. The property would be designed to appeal to park guests in the summer and, in the winter when the park is closed, to small groups of business travelers who come to town, said the developer. Future possibilities also include three new hotels between Jazzland and Michoud Boulevard, plus a motel at the parks entrance. Local attorney and real estate developer John Cummings hopes to pull together a partnership to build the hotels by 2003 on the nearly 3,000 acres he owns near the park. But a slowing economy may stall many planned hotel projects and jeopardize those already in place throughout New Orleans, cautious Jon Fels, hotel broker and consultant and chief executive officer of Fels Hotel Group in Baton Rouge. Fels says with more than 30,000 hotel rooms here already, the market for the metropolitan area has reached the saturation point with demand for rooms decreasing.
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