KPC breaks ground on $300M hotel in Kroenke’s Hollywood Park

KPC Development has broken ground on a $300 million hotel in Inglewood, the only lodge inside Stan Kroenke’s Hollywood Park and SoFi Stadium development.

The unit of Corona-based KPC Group led by Dr. Kali Chaudhuri is building the 12-story, 300-room Kali Hotel at 3737 Stadium Drive, Urbanize Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Times reported. A ground-breaking ceremony is slated for Oct. 22.

The luxury boutique hotel will stand on land ground-leased from Kroenke Holdings, which owns the Los Angeles Rams and the 300-acre Hollywood Park. Urbanize said it “will undoubtedly be the hotel in closest proximity to SoFi Stadium.”

It’s the first hotel built in the U.S. by KPC, which builds commercial properties in India and in the Golden State. Completion is expected by Spring 2026, opening in time for the 2026 World Cup, the 2027 Super Bowl and the 2028 Summer Olympics.

“Although this will be our first hotel, we’re already planning to build many more,” Chaudhuri told the Times.

The white hotel, whose glass sides resemble the scales of a large fish, is designed by Lamar Johnson Collaborative, based in Chicago. Clayco, also based in the Windy City, is the project builder.

Operated by Marriott and formally known as Kali Hotel and Rooftop, Autograph Collection, the hotel is rising on the shore of a manmade lake across from the 70,000-seat stadium, home to L.A.’s two NFL teams, the Rams and Chargers.

Its 34 suites, intended to draw sports and entertainment VIPs who may be visiting the nearby SoFi Stadium, YouTube Theater, Intuit Dome and the Kia Forum, will be up to 1,200 square feet, and include shower heads mounted up to 11 feet overhead.

“It would be an ideal spot for any visiting basketball teams to the Clippers arena, and obviously for SoFi Stadium,” John Petty, head of development and construction for KPC, told the Times. “We do anticipate sports teams staying at the hotel.”

The hotel will have a pool and yoga deck, spa, fitness center, three restaurants and bars, 20,000 square feet of ballrooms and meeting rooms and an underground garage for 315 cars.

A signature rooftop restaurant and bar will have views of the stadium, Intuit Dome and jets flying in and out of nearby LAX.

The hotel grounds will include a bronze sculpture of jockey Bill Shoemaker riding Swaps, winner of the 1955 Kentucky Derby, which once stood at the former Hollywood Park horse track.

Hollywood Park, built atop the famed racetrack of the same name, is the largest mixed-use development under construction in the West, according to the Kroenke Group. 

When complete, it’ll be 3.5 times the size of Disneyland, and include 5 million square feet of offices, 890,000 square feet of shops and restaurants, plus the $5 billion, 70,000-seat SoFi Stadium and 6,000-seat YouTube Theater, surrounded by up to 2,500 homes, parks and a lake.

KPC Group, founded by Chaudhuri in 1994, has built hospitals in Riverside and Orange counties and a 300,000-square-foot office campus in Corona, where the company is based, according to the Times.

It has built a nursing college and 1,000-bed hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. KPC is also building two residential projects in Kolkata, including a 74-story skyscraper, the company said.

— Dana Bartholomew

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