From The Arizona Republic:
Wyndham Phoenix Hotel Now a Marriott
A Phoenix hotel owner who years ago fought a city-backed effort to open a Marriott hotel in downtown has turned the Wyndham Phoenix Hotel into a Marriott Renaissance with help from the city. Steve Cohn, majority owner of the Wyndham, launched an effort nearly five years ago to make the 520-room Wyndham at 50 E. Adams St., once a Crowne Plaza Hotel, a Renaissance hotel to draw bigger convention groups and increase profits. Cohn sought assistance from the city in 2009 to ease his debt burden for the transition, which he said required an estimated $40 million in renovations to fulfill the standards set by Marriott for its Renaissance hotels. Click here for the full story.