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AEG Proposes $1.2B DTLA Hotel, Convention Center Expansion

Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) is moving forward on a $1.2-billion plan to expand the J.W. Marriott hotel at L.A. Live and Los Angeles Convention Center. That includes a proposed $700 million, 40-story hotel featuring 850 guest rooms and 51,000 square feet of meeting space.

The new 420-foot tower would connect to the Convention Center and existing hotel via pedestrian bridges. The combined J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotel complex would encompass 1,851 hotel rooms, making it the second largest hotel in the state.

AEG is also partnering with the City of Los Angeles on a proposed $500-million Convention Center expansion, which would add up to 350,000 square feet of new space. AEG believes the additions would create a more cohesive 100-acre campus with multiple meeting spaces, lodgings, theaters and restaurants.

A City Council committee endorsed nearly $100 million in public subsidies for the projects, both of which are envisioned to be completed by 2022.

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Dennis Kaiser is Vice President of Public Relations and Communications for Connect Creative. Dennis is a communications leader with more than 40 years of experience including as a journalist and in corporate and agency marketing communications roles. He is responsible for Connect Creative’s agency client services and is involved in a range of initiatives ranging from public relations and content strategy, communications and message development, copywriting, media relations, social media and content marketing services. Prior to joining Connect Media in 2015, his most recent corporate communications roles involved leading a regional public relations effort across Southern California for CBRE, playing a key marketing role on JLL’s national retail team, and directing the global public relations effort at ValleyCrest (BrightView), the nation’s largest commercial landscape services company. He has worked on marketing communications assignments for such CRE companies as Blackstone/Equity Office, Carlyle, Caruso, Disney Resorts, GE Capital, Irvine Company, Hines, Howard Hughes Corp., Jeffries, Lennar, MGM, Marcus & Millichap, Prologis, Raleigh Studios, Simon, Starwood, Trammell Crow Company, Transamerica, UBS and Wynn Resorts. Dennis has also worked on communications and launch strategies for a number of consumer electronic, media and tech brands including SlingMedia, Channel Master, Deluxe Media Entertainment, BeIn Sports, EchoStar and Sprint. Dennis’s agency background included firms such as Off Madison Ave., Idea Hall and Macy + Associates. He has earned an outstanding reputation with organization leaders as a trusted advisor, strategic program implementer, consensus builder and exceptional collaborator. Dennis has developed and managed national communications programs for Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, both public and private. He’s successfully worked with journalists across the globe representing clients involved in major-breaking news stories, product launches, media tours, and company news announcements. Dennis has been involved in a host of charitable and community organizations including the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boy Scouts, Chrysalis Foundation, Freedom For Life, HOLA, L.A.’s BEST, Reach Out and Read, Super Bowl Host Committee, and the Thunderbirds Charities.

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