Located in the heart of the French Quarter, the Holiday Inn French Quarter Hotel offers spacious rooms with Executive King Size accommodations, many with a view of the Mississippi River. DonahueFavret Contractors was chosen to add 98 rooms to the 18 story hotel. The project began at the 9th floor of the hotel parking garage, where 26 rooms were added and two additional stories, the 19th and 20th floors, were added to the existing building with 36 rooms each, thereby gaining 72 more rooms.

The staging restraints required that DFC and Architect John Campo design an exterior skin that would be durable and attractive but would also be easily installed over 200 feet in the air, teeming below with busy traffic and pedestrians. The solution was a prefabricated panel, constructed of metal studs and EIFS. A tower crane was erected at the level of the proposed 20th floor of the building to handle all materials. It was erected on steel beams that spanned the open air space between the wings of the existing hotel building. Through creative scheduling and project management, DFC was able to deliver the first 26 rooms at the ninth floor six months early. The balance of the rooms was completed 45 days prior to contract time with no requests for extensions. The project covered 52,000 square feet.