A New Orleans City Council committee on Tuesday approved a tax break for the Omni New Orleans hotel, agreeing to send the proposal to the full council for a vote next week.
The move is one of the last procedural steps necessary to approve the package of public incentives supporting the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s long-sought “headquarters hotel,” a roughly $600 million project being developed by Dallas-based Omni Hotel & Resorts and targeting a 2030 opening date…