Concord Hospitality Enterprises and Kane Realty Corporation have plans to open North Carolina’s first AC Hotel, a Marriott International lifestyle brand, in Raleigh’s North Hills section.
AC Hotel Raleigh, a 133-room upscale hotel, is expected to open in 2016 and will be Concord and Kane Realty’s third hotel joint venture in North Hills. The brand targets travelers searching for a design-led hotel in a great location. Founded in 1998, AC Hotels is an international hotel brand with nearly 100 hotels located primarily in Europe. In 2011, AC Hotels and Marriott International formed a joint venture to expand the brand into the U.S. and further abroad. AC Hotel Raleigh is one of more than 30 hotels set to open within the next three years throughout the U.S. and Latin America, and will feature European-inspired aesthetics.
“North Hills is the premier midtown Raleigh address and is at the forefront of a national trend in urban development, providing a refined mixture of everything that makes a community desirable,” says Mark Laport, Concord’s president and CEO. “We saw the potential for this project when we developed the Renaissance Raleigh/North Hills in 2008 and continued to share the vision when we built the Hyatt House hotel in 2013.”
