Gordon Ramsay to Make Vegas Debut

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is making his Sin City debut with Gordon Ramsay Steak, opening this spring at Paris Las Vegas. EDG Interior Architecture + Design is overseeing the restaurant’s high-energy design, which will reflect edgy, bold designs that bridge...

Hotel Normandie Undergoes Transformation in LA

Situated in LA’s Koreatown, Hotel Normandie has seen better days. The 1928 building, a showcase of Renaissance Revival on the exterior and Spanish Revival inside, will now get new life thanks to a $5 million overhaul by architect Jingbo Lou, according to the Los...

More than 38,000 Hotel Rooms Opened in 2011

The U.S. hotel industry opened 373 new properties with 38,409 rooms in 2011, resulting in a 0.5 percent increase in existing room supply, according to data from STR/McGraw Hill Construction Dodge Pipeline Report. Among the chain scale segments, the upper midscale...