(Above) A guest room at Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, from the hotel’s website. (Click on image to view larger version.)

January 31, 2015 – $4.96 million will be spent renovating guest rooms at Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile.

The Michigan Avenue hotel will renovate 140 rooms – including two that were recently created – and hallways on floors 42-46, according to a permit issued by the Department of Buildings on January 21.

James McHugh Construction Company is the general contractor. The architect is Tomoo T. Fujikawa, a principal of the Chicago firm, Fujikawa Johnson Gobel Architects, Inc.

A spokesperson for Marriott and the hotel’s general manager both declined to comment.