Here are statuses on the properties listed above based on what I know and info I've been fed from sources:

• Ubud - partially built, cancelled
• Mumbai - partially built, frozen as a shell a few floors high
• Delhi - cancelled
• Sharm El Sheikh - cancelled
• Marrakech - cancelled
• Sanya - I keep hearing that this one is on and off; probably cancelled
• Cancun - was the Melody Maker, transitioned to the Armar House, began renovations and stopped partway through, now abandoned
• Playa Del Carmen - went silent, most likely cancelled
• Marbella - long delayed, most likely cancelled
• Phuket - long delayed, most likely cancelled
• Milan - opened as Casa Brera under the LC banner, but there will/should be a W opening late this year or early next near the Duomo in the place of the former Palazzo Matteotti hotel
• Cabarete - this one was selling condos but went quiet; the website is still up here
• Turks and Caicos - cancelled after going dark for years

A second W was announced for Mumbai at Powai Lake, in the same complex as the Renaissance-turned-Westin, but it was cancelled a few years ago citing poor market demand and was instead built as offices.

W has recently shed both its hotels in Chicago and has been undergoing a brand regeneration to make it less clubby and more playfully luxurious; their new flagships of W New York - Union Square and W Hollywood are supposed to be the prototypes of the 'new' W.

khabah