Watermark hotel opens in downtown BR

BATON ROUGE – The Watermark Hotel, once a national bank, officially opened on Wednesday in downtown Baton Rouge.With the opening of the boutique hotel, downtown will have more than 1,000 rooms for guests to stay in. However, in the early 2000's that was not the case."Back then after 5 o' clock, downtown was quiet. You could hear crickets chirp," Mike Wampold, the owner of The Watermark Hotel, said.Wampold said that guests will have the chance to get a glimpse of history during their st