The Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake hotel will lay off all 65 employees when it temporarily closes July 31, as the property undergoes a major transformation. Local real estate firm Ayrshire Corp. purchased the 242-room building at 3000 NASA Parkway for $27 million from Dallas-based Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc., with plans to convert it into a Compass Hotel by Margaritaville. Renovations will add condominiums on the top three floors, expand the ballroom, and replace the pool with a lazy river and swim-up bar. No reopening date has been announced.
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The Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake hotel plans to lay off all of its employees — just as the property developers are planning to turn the building into a Margaritaville-branded lodge.
Earlier this month, Remington Lodging and Hospitality LLC, a company which manages the hotel near the Johnson Space Center, notified the Texas Workforce Commission that the hotel was temporarily closing on July 31. According to that email and the state agency, its 65 employees will be dismissed from their jobs as a result of the closure.
The hospitality company also stated they had notified employees and the city of Nassau Bay about the layoffs.
The email, however, did not specify when the hotel, located at 3000 Nasa Parkway, would reopen.
The 242-room hotel’s temporary shutdown comes after a local real estate company, Ayrshire Corp., purchased the building last year with plans to renovate it into a Compass Hotel by Margaritaville with condos. The property was sold for $27 million by Dallas-based Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc., according to a news release.
According to the Houston Business Journal, the hotel’s new owners will turn the top three floors of the 14-story hotel into condominiums, reducing the number of hotel rooms to 170. The lobby will be renovated, the 5,000-square-foot ballroom will be expanded to twice its size, and the outdoor pool will be replaced with a new one that that has a lazy river and swim-up bar.
Remington Lodging and Hospitality did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the hotel’s upcoming layoffs.
