“This is what Lancaster is all about,” Vice Mayor Marvin Crist said at the ribbon cutting ceremony on Dec. 16. “Beautiful, modern developments like this are exactly what The BLVD needs, and we have a lot of people to thank for making this dream a reality.”
Artwork for the hotel was curated by Andi Campognone and Lancaster’s Museum of Art and History. Each piece was chosen to honor the Valley’s legacy in aerospace, with pieces from the MOAH collection. The lobby and each level of the hotel include scenes from local aviation history, with each piece of artwork accompanied by labels and QR codes to help visitors learn more about the specific art piece and how it relates to the Antelope Valley.
Construction of the hotel started during the pandemic in January of 2020. The Marriott Residence Inn of Downtown Lancaster is currently open to guests and includes an outdoor pool area and fitness center.
[Information via news release from the city of Lancaster.]
Dr. Smitty says
I drove by Boeing Square on the BLVD the other day. There are more tents there than rooms at this hotel. Plus I saw two homeless people sleeping outside the hotel. Only in Lancaster. Only in Lancaster indeed.
William the closeted rapist says
Oh please let me keep raping you. Its not like you have control over it. Oh shush and stop complaining because its getting more inconvenient for me to inch my way through.
Alby says
Either “word salad” or “duh” on my behalf. What are you trying to say?… Perhaps a different format of lingo might trigger my understanding. Too much spiked eggnog?
Alby says
Its hard to enjoy alot of good thing in this town with section 8 goons and methheads preying and trashing all over this town instead of finding jobs that are available here. Nevertheless, can’t wait to visit.
Thomas Crapper says
Goons and methheads do not add anything positive to Lancaster for sure. Neither do the goons who waste $10 million tax dollars to fund useless projects like LEAPS that only serve to line the pockets of political contributors. Think of all the good that could be done with that money. Plus all the money wasted in lawsuits on account of statements and actions of our leadership.
We have bigger problems in Lancaster than ‘section 8 goons and methheads’. Poor leadership on Fern Street that is dominated by rich, westside disciples of King Rex has a huge impact on what happens and does not happen around here. Time to flush the toilet.
Alby says
Section 8 goons and methheads do run Fern street. And they’re always cutting their own kind some slack at the expense of others that “seem” better off. I’d rather my tax dollars went To LEAPS over catering to those that think they can mooch off of the system when they are able to get at least a part-time job.
Ed says
Yes, yes. Ever since Marv told us they were sending 67 homeless people a day to Lancaster on the train, the whole place just went to hellina hand basket. Wrecks has a plan to get rid of the homeless by telling people to carry guns illegally and shoot the homeless if they try to rob you. With all the homeless on the BLVD either people are not listening to Wrecks (thankfully) or the homeless aren’t robbing people like he claims.
Tim Scott says
Oh give it a rest. Have you EVER been anywhere else? If so, and there was no one there that you so obviously consider to be beneath your station why didn’t you do us a favor and stay?
Alby says
Either “word salad” or “duh” on my behalf. What are you trying to say?… Perhaps a different format of lingo might trigger my understanding. Too much spiked eggnog?
Alby says
Its so pathetic how you justify garbage taking over this town and any one that protests is considered self righteous and superior. You just want everyone to shut up while you all impose your “sickle and animal stigma.” What’s sad is that you probably don’t even live in this town and you mostly likely justify section 8 ghetto trash in other city news forums while babbling about proper sentence structures. That’s probably all you have left to live for in your lonely world. Oh maybe you all should give it a rest… For good.
Beecee says
It’s simple,
He needs to justify his living in a trash neighborhood.
William says
Oh, there you are, Beeceeehaha.
I had heard a house fell on you.
Tim Scott says
Generally speaking a place is just a place. What makes a neighborhood better or worse are the people in it. Thus I am certain that my neighborhood is better than basic clown’s neighborhood, just because her neighborhood includes her. Somewhere on some distant planet an alien will read this and say “yeah Tim, but you are stuck on the same planet so sux to be you.”
East Lancaster says
Lancaster would be a much better place if both the panhandlers/druggies and Wrecks/Puppets were gone.
Dying Govlin says
Lancaster is such a depressing sad sordid little ghetto. Anyone that thinks this city can climb out of its current status of “Home of the Homeless”is kidding themselves living in a complete fantasy and is probably beleiving in the old stagnant white is right motto that Lancaster is god’s country .what sad lonely streets this town has vomited up all over itself . Wake up and go to sleep . .. .
Robert Miller says
The social decline will continue in a out of control death spiral into the pits of hell
America's Most Optimistic says
So you’re a “glass half full” kinda guy, huh?
BoopmeMiMi says
That’s the last thing we need in lancaster is another Hotel, Nothing in lancaster is worth coming 4 a VISIT. Probably the sex traffickers needed another pad to crash.
Bam Boozled says
Rex thinks Asian tourists will flock to Lancaster when he builds his 60 foot tall Buddha statue. He’ll probably put it on the BLVD where that metal thing sits at Bex. Er, Don Sal’s. RIP Bex.
It’s all part of his plan to lower crime. Spend $10 million tax dollars on a failed Eye in the Sky. Then bring in Asians and ‘the gays’. His words, not mine.
“Good things happen when you’re able to increase your Asian population to a certain threshold: Crime rates go down, education levels go up,” Parris told Vice. “Interestingly, the same thing happens with the gays. That’s why I put the new performing arts center right downtown.”
People vote for this a$$ clown?
William says
We need to start writing is thusly “Lancaster(R)” so there’s no mistaking who is responsible.
Big Belly says
The pattern is it starts with a respectable name like Marriott and after a couple years we get a name change to a less known operator. I bet the city is paying a subsidy for the naming and when it runs out so will Marriott.
Frank says
Who knows? Maybe it will a new Mahli’s. It sure would be an improvement over the Mahli’s that was in Palmdale years ago. Yuk.
William says
Who would build a hotel in an area (the blvd) that has been going downhill since its remodel? There are plenty of motels right around the corner on Sierra Highway.
How many new businesses have opened and then closed within a year or so?
Maybe this hotel has gambling in the backroom or something. It doesn’t make sense but that’s Lancasterex.
BLVD Betty says
The Honey Bee is the latest to close. Five and Dime, the several businesses that were on the corner across from the now closed Bex, several coffee shops, Chicago Hot Dogs, Brittney’s, Barone’s, Kinetic, Vintage Styles Now, Hot Rod Dogz, Lemon Leaf, GBD, Laemelle, Maribel’s, Pour de Vino, Rapture Gold, and on and on and on.
The BLVD of Broken Dreams.
William says
Wow, BLVD Betty, did you write all those closed places from mmeory? I recall a few but you nearly got all of them.
Aven’s Furniture closed but I think he retired.
There’s something funny about a Marriot locating there. I guess we’ll learn eventually.
BLVD Betty says
Aven’s is now a hydroponics shop. Why not? With Wrecks and Marv bringing back the old trade to Lancaster, growing weed is a natural fit. It’s not like there’s any other businesses up and coming. Plus with a buzz you can tune out all the garbage that Wrecks and the good old boys are doing. Ignorance is bliss.
Larry says
Funny how the Same people who get all mad and butthurt about the mayor and everyday citizens who despise all of the homeless bums trashing our valley, are now commenting with the same disdain about “panhandlers”…it’s just that they can call them “panhandlers” when it’s convenient.
Pandhandling Pete says
It’s one thing to have disdain about “panhandlers”. It’s quite another to suggest that the citizenry carry weapons illegally and shoot the homeless if they try to rob you. If you can’t see the difference, let me guess, you’re a Wrecks supporter or on one of his 500 useless commissions.
Room 222 says
I wonder if they will hand out quarters at the front desk for guests to give to all the panhandlers on the BLVD. Or better yet, tell them to stay in at night.
Seeker of Truth says
One can always count on a positive comment.
The Truth Hurts says
It’s positively clear that the BLVD area is infested with panhandlers and crime.
FWB says
anyone that thinks the Antelope Valley is going to change for the better is a damn fool.
Epic Fail says
It is hard to make it better when we are led by corrupt politicians who give no bid contracts to political pals, funnel $10 million tax payer dollars to failed projects that only benefit the project owners, and who practice nepotism at every turn.