Renovations
Motel 6 Celebrates 50-Year Milestone
Fifty years go, homebuilders Paul Greene and William Becker built their first motel on the sandy shores of Santa Barbara’s Cabrillo Beach. That no-frills property offered rooms for just $6 per night. Today, 1,100 hotels in the Motel 6 chain still offer some of the lowest rates in the nation. In fact,...
ABVI Makes Renovations Easy as 1-2-3
For Americas Best Value Inn owners, “renovations are as easy $1, $2, $3” a day. Vantage Hospitality and one of its preferred vendors, American Hotel Register Company, created a program offering owners the ability to choose one of three packages and pay $1, $2 or $3 a day per room if renovations are needed....
IHG Upgrades Extended Stay Brands
IHG is a hotel company that knows how to accomplish a brand overhaul. After all, it recently oversaw a total refresh of the massive and iconic Holiday Inn brand. Now, IHG is working with one of its ownership groups, Hospitality Properties Trust, to renovate a big portion of its Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites extended stay portfolio....
$65 Milllion Turns NYC’s Helmsley into Westin
By early summer, the Helmsley Hotel in New York City will be no more. The circa 1981 building is undergoing extensive renovations and will become the Westin New York at Grand Central. This marks Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ second Westin in the city. The first is the nearby Westin New York at Times Square....
Hotel Executives See Clear Path Ahead
The Americas Lodging Investors Summit, held each January on the West Coast, is a good early bellwether of industry sentiment for the year. Budgets are complete, plans are made, and executives are hungry to execute. To get a reading on the sentiment for 2012, Lodging Hospitality gathered a roundtable of industry leaders during this year’s ALIS to gauge future developments, challenges and opportunities for the lodging business....
Top Hotel Design & Architecture Firms
Are you looking to renovate your entire hotel? Is it almost time to put that property improvement plan into action? Need to refresh the feel of your lobby, or add a new restaurant?...
LH Design Awards Call for Nominations
It’s once again time for Lodging Hospitality’s annual Design Awards competition. The Design Awards will run in the April 15 print issue and online, and we need your help identifying the year’s best hotel and resort design. ...
Classic Hyatt Regency Atlanta Gets Updated
Architect John Portman’s Hyatt Regency Atlanta, the first atrium hotel, has gotten a re-do. Last renovated in 1995, the 45-year-old hotel was due for a renovation to stay competitive....
Saving the Last Frank Lloyd Wright Hotel
Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed just five hotels and only one remains in operation, the Historic Park Inn in Mason City, IA. Following a $20-million restoration, the property has returned to its position as the center of the town’s business and social life. Here’s how this improbable feat was accomplished:...
What’s Ahead For Hotels in 2012
2011 may not have been the hotel industry’s best year, but it sure could have been a hell of a lot worse. As we discuss in this month’s industry forecast story (starting on pg. 22), lodging demand, rate and RevPAR all improved in 2011, and this should be another year of gains. But what else is ahead for 2012 and beyond for the industry? Managing Editor Eric Stoessel and I present our thoughts on what will be the big news stories and trends in the coming 12 months...
Lessons For Hoteliers From Other Sectors
Hospitality, government and education are very different verticals, with their own missions and operating procedures. Despite the differences, they also have a lot in common—in particular, concerns about standards, time, sustainability and budgets. Here’s a look at common challenges during renovation projects, and how best practices can be shared across industries....
Vantage Hospitality Stays On the Move
In June of this year, Vantage Hospitality hit the 1,000-property milestone in the12th year since its founding. Last week at its annual convention and trade show, founder and CEO Roger Bloss made it clear Vantage was far from done. ...
Hilton Garden Inn Revitalizes Its Hotel Lobbies
Hilton wants to put the “garden” into Hilton Garden Inn. That’s one of the goals of a brand-wide initiative to refresh the public spaces throughout the brand’s 500-plus properties. Project Grow, as the initiative is dubbed, also aims to create a lobby space that encourages socialization among guests and boost property food and beverage revenues....
Design Elements Sept. 5, 2011
A roundup of design and architecture news and notes....
Design Elements August 15, 2011
Roundup of design news....
