by Alissa Ponchione | Feb 18, 2015 | News
The Gregory, a new 132-room boutique hotel at 42 West 35th Street in New York, is slated to open this spring. This is the second collaboration between Interstate Hotels & Resorts, hotel Asset Value Enhancement (hotelAVE), and Meadow Partners. The hotel first...
by Alissa Ponchione | Feb 18, 2015 | News
Loews Hotels & Resorts has entered into an agreement to purchase the 158-room Mandarin Oriental San Francisco Hotel. The acquisition is expected to close in late March. “This will be our first entrée into San Francisco, a major gateway market and a very...
by Alissa Ponchione | Feb 18, 2015 | Projects
Since its debut in mid-2013, the Four Seasons Lion Palace St. Petersburg has introduced Imperial grandeur to the hotel guest experience. French architect Auguste de Montferrand constructed the Neoclassical yellow and white triangular “House with Lions” adjacent to St....
by Alissa Ponchione | Feb 18, 2015 | People
Budding friendships, eye-opening classes, and raucous parties are among college’s poignant rites of passage. Andrew Alford, chief creative officer of Chicago-based AJ Capital Partners’ (founded by Ben Weprin in 2008) recently launched Graduate Hotels brand describes...
by Alissa Ponchione | Feb 18, 2015 | News
A St. Petersburg relic is restored to is former grandeur