GMU to Close Mason Inn Conference Center and Hotel in Fairfax

In a message to the George Mason University community Monday, President Angel Cabrera said the college will likely be closing the Mason Inn Conference Center and Hotel on its Fairfax campus, little more than three years after its much-lauded opening, the Washington Business Journal said Tuesday.

However, the announcement could be good news for students and would-be students.

Cabrera said the Inn, with 148 hotel rooms, a spa, a full restaurant, and meeting spaces, has been losing around $2 million per year since it opened in 2010, after the university invested $50 million to build and open it.

However, over the past 12 years, student demand for on-campus living space such as dormitories has roughly doubled, Cabrera said—from about 3,000 students wanting to live on campus to about 6,000.

Therefore, Cabrera said the school will convert the hotel and meeting space into a combined residential, dining and instructional space.

The conversion is expected to be complete by the end of the next school year.

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