It’s impossible to believe but after years and years of beyond-frustrating (and mysterious) extended delays that have lasted for more than a decade, the long-vacant Trinity Auditorium and Hotel Clark — two historic gems owned by NY-based Chetrit Group — are finally about to open early next year as two new boutique hotels under the Fën Hotels brand from South America. This time it looks like it’s for real, for real. Argentina-based Fën Hotels (with a NYC headquarters here in the USA) will open both of their hotel brands here in Downtown LA: the Dazzler and Esplendor. With only a handful of locations in the US (one in Brooklyn and two in Florida), Downtown LA will debut as Fën Hotels’ first locations on the West Coast.

The Trinity Auditorium at 9th and Grand in South Park will become the new “Esplendor Trinity” hotel. The 8-story historic structure built in 1914 has been converted into a hotel with 183 guest rooms. A 7,600 square foot rooftop pool deck and bar is being completed as well as a hotel restaurant on the ground floor with outdoor patio seating within a new private hotel garden located at the corner of 9th and Grand. The only thing concerning to me about this “private garden” will be a wall erected along the perimeter of this hotel garden that will do very little for pedestrian activation. The original Trinity Auditorium, which was the first home of the LA Philharmonic, will be reactivated as an entertainment venue with new seating already installed. According to sources onsite, the Esplendor Trinity will open by April/May of 2016. To see inside the hotel’s completed rooms, click here.

The historic 1912 Hotel Clark at 4th and Hill in the Historic Core will become the new 348-room “Dazzler Clark” hotel with a trendier and slightly younger feel than the Esplendor Trinity. If you may remember from a few years ago, both the Hotel Clark and the Trinity Auditorium were supposed to be reborn as the King & Grove Hotel but eventually those plans fell through due to internal conflict between the Chetrit Group and King & Grove that lead to their eventual break-up. The 11-story Hotel Clark stands out along Hill Street due to its large vertical neon sign that will likely be lit up at night once the hotel opens sometime in January/February 2016.

Fën Hotels currently has 23 hotel properties mostly in South American cities like Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Uruguay and Lima, Peru. Visit Fën Hotels online for more info including their Dazzlor and Esplendor hotel properties.

Esplendor Trinity Hotel (Click here to view hotel rooms inside)

Dazzler Clark Hotel

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