World War I was followed by a period of tremendous hotel construction, and hotels also increased in size; the Stevens Hotel (later the Conrad Hilton) in Chicago opened with 3,000 rooms and retained the title of the world's largest until the late 1960s, when the Hotel Rossiya opened in Moscow.
Hotel construction has intensified, as has foreign investment in the garment industry.
But the softening demand was also accompanied by a record boom in hotel construction.
Her first job was lugging tools and water kegs around a hotel construction site.
The growth in hotel construction threatens to hollow out the entire city.
As for the hotel itself, a local paper called it "the last word in hotel construction".
The Foundry was closed in 2010 to make way for a hotel; construction still hasn't begun.
Meanwhile, multiple expansions of the local convention center have fueled hotel construction and a slew of new restaurants.
"I thought we were supposedly shutting the place down," he said, "and you see all this new hotel construction".
At the hotel construction site at the corner, the hardhats had taken over all but one lane.
Even more than hotel construction, a boom in condominium development has increased the number of construction cranes crowding the skies.
