Prince George’s County’s hotel stock is getting an upgrade.
After years of being dominated by motels along U.S. Route 1, the Maryland county has seen a shift of late. The most obvious example is the MGM National Harbor, which opened late last year as the county’s first new full-service hotel in a long time.
But the growth isn’t limited to buzzy National Harbor. All over the county — from Riverdale Park to Largo and Bowie to Hyattsville — new hotels are cropping up.
Six new or redeveloped hotels have opened in the past year, and six more are under construction, including the Hotel at the University of Maryland, which is adding another full-service hospitality option to the county.
Approximately 24 others are either proposed or approved and pending start of construction, according to a tally by the county’s conference and visitors bureau. In all, the county’s tourism agency has tallied more than 4,200 new hotel rooms that are planned or proposed coming to Prince George’s County in the next decade. That represents a near 40 percent increase from the area’s existing hotel stock, which includes 78 properties and 10,854 rooms.