LSH Hotel

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The LSH Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, originally known as the Trump Hotel Rio de Janeiro, is a beachfront hotel in the Barra da Tijuca area. It was announced in 2014 as a joint project between The Trump Organization and Brazilian developer LSH Barra. The plan called for a 13-story building with 171 rooms, costing about $120 million, designed by Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG) with interiors by Rockwell Group.

Construction began in 2015 with the goal of opening in time for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Parts of the hotel opened on August 4, 2016, but most of the building remained unfinished, with only the lower floors available to guests and the 4,000-square-foot nightclub not completed.

In October 2016, a Brazilian prosecutor opened an investigation into two pension funds that had invested $40 million in the project. The Trump Organization ended its management agreement in December 2016, and the hotel was renamed LSH Barra Hotel.

By early 2017, the project was still not finished, with reports that it struggled to attract guests and that remaining facilities were incomplete. The hotel is located at Rua Professor Coutinho Fróis 10 in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, near the Barra Olympic Park and Athletes’ Village. It is now owned by LSH Barra Empreendimentos Imobiliários SA and operates as the LSH Barra Hotel.