Hersha Hospitality Management Helps Clean the World
Hersha Hospitality Management takes its obligation as a steward of the environment seriously. The Philadelphia-based operator of more than 80 diverse lodging properties recently partnered with Clean the World, a non-profit group that fights the spread of preventable diseases by recycling hotel soaps and bottled amenities. Like all its sustainability and social action initiatives, Hersha looks at the partnership as a way to do well by doing good....
One Developer Masterminds Albuquerque’s Two Boutique Hotels
If he were still alive, Conrad Hilton would have no trouble recognizing the expansive lobby of the Hotel Andaluz in downtown Albuquerque. When the New Mexico native built the 10-story property in 1939, it was the city’s tallest building and Hilton’s fourth hotel project following three in neighboring Texas. More than 70 years later, the design and the feel both remain that of a Moorish Riad, or palace, exactly as Hilton envisioned back in the 1930s....
Tax Credits Fuel Philly Homewood Suites Project
When the Homewood Suites University City broke ground in December, it was a first to many people for many reasons. For the developer, Campus Apartments, it marks the company’s first hotel project. For the City of Philadelphia, it is the first recipient of an EnergyWorks loan ...
Sage Hospitality Partners in Higher Education in Denver
Some lodging companies, like Sage Hospitality, recognize the future health of the hospitality industry rests with the quality of the education system serving it. As a way to bring life to that philosophy, Sage is partnering with Metropolitan State College in its home city of Denver on an intriguing, if not unique, project that combines academics with real-world hotel and f&b experience for MSC’s 500-plus hospitality majors....
Delaware North Strikes Gold With Special Places
It may be the most successful hotel company you probably never heard of. It’s Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts, the Buffalo, NY-based operator of 20 lodging properties with about 4,000 units mostly in or near national and state parks in the U.S. and Canada. The firm also owns five resorts in Australia and is concessionaire at a number of national parks (Grand Canyon, Sequoia, Yosemite), two New York State parks and the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. ...
First Staybridge Suites With Student Designs Opens
A unique partnership between the Savannah College of Art and Design and IHG’s Staybridge Suites brand has born fruit. The first hotel in the brand’s portfolio to open with designs created by interior design students at the school debuted last week near Houston. ...
Behind the Scenes Jan. 15, 2011
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Renovating Your Hotel Cost Effectively
A lot of properties will be renovated in the coming year with the mounting number of hotel owners contemplating sales and investors viewing acquisitions. Hotels are often spruced up before a sale and usually renovated after a purchase and reflagging. However, with money tight, renovations must ...
LEED Pays Off For Motel 6
When the Motel 6 in Northlake, TX earned its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification this July, it became the first economy hotel to earn the designation from the U.S. Green Building Council. It’s also Accor’s first hotel to be certified, and it wasn’t even part of the company’s original plan for the hotel....
