CONCEPT: The 258-room property in the beachfront city of Ventura, CA, was converted to the Crowne Plaza brand following an 18-month renovation. The aim of the refurbishment was to create an image of “casual elegance,” said Douglas Wood, general manager of the hotel which was previously the Holiday Inn Ventura Beach Resort.Read More
BEVERLY HILLS, CA— As part of the effort to revive the famed Beverly Hilton here, the hotel wanted to take its outdated bar and restaurant area and create a fresh destination spot that would attract guests as well as the surrounding community.Read More
BETHESDA, MD–– With more than 150 SpringHill Suites by Marriott open and a pipeline exceeding 110 properties, parent company Marriott International, Inc. has opted to give the nine-year-old, all-suite brand a fresh design with the goal of placing it squarely in a leadership spot among lodging players in the lifestyle niche.Read More
ATLANTA–– Instead of going straight to an established designer or design firm for ideas on how to redesign U.S. Franchise System’s (USFS) Microtel Inn & Suites brand, the company instead bestowed the task upon a group of students at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) here.Read More
PALM BEACH, FL— Two independent design teams with a shared vision, working over a period of two-and-a-half years, overseen by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.’s internal design team with the active support of the property’s new owner has resulted in the reinvention of the stately Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach. What had been formal and rather dark is…Read More
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO–– LXR Luxury Resorts & Hotels knew that one of its Puerto Rico properties, the 577-room Condado Plaza Hotel & Casino, had once been a leader in the key San Juan market. However, a lack of investment over the years had left the property with its glory days seemingly far behind.Read More
CRANSTON, RI— With the importance of design growing as both independent and branded hotels look for unique style that will set them apart and owners and developers become more active participants in the design process, The Procaccianti Group (TPG), based here, has taken that involvement one step further by establishing its own in-house design firm…Read More
IRVING, TX— In today’s booming hospitality market, owners and developers are not only buying and building new assets at an often frenzied pace, but are also intensely focused on updating their existing properties in the form of renovating and repositioning projects.Read More
SAN DIEGO— The Keating Hotel is the type of property that’s likely to have hoteliers seeing red, both literally and figuratively.To start, they may see red when they realize Edward Kaen, principal of The Keating Hotel Group, is the first person persuasive enough to convince noted Italian design firm Pininfarina Group— the design force behind…Read More
