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Ocean Properties Planning 130-room Hotel Following Purchase of Property from City of Bangor, Maine
July 5, 2013
July 05--BANGOR, Maine -- The City of Bangor on Friday said it plans to sell a three-acre lot it owns across the street from the new Cross Insurance Center to hotel developer Ocean Properties. The 3.13-acre lot is on Dutton Street, directly behind the Irving gas station on Main Street. It's currently a parking lot and is being used as a staging area for the construction going on at the new convention center, said Tanya Emery, the city's economic development specialist. Emery told the Bangor Daily News that the city has owned the lot since 2002. Ocean Properties, which owns more than 100 hotels and resorts in North America, plans to buil
Balfour Beatty Wins O2 Arena Hotel Bid in Greenwich, London; 452-room Hotel Set to Open Summer 2015
July 5, 2013
July 05--Fans of Michael Buble, Iron Maiden, and other stars playing at Greenwich's O2 Arena will soon be able to slip from their seats to bed via a VIP entrance after Balfour Beatty today announced it is building a hotel on the site. Balfour won a pounds sterling 121 million contract to build an 18-storey hotel, with 452 rooms, plus a leisure and apartment complex in North Greenwich peninsula, next to the O2, for Grove Developments Limited. The site will include 100 serviced apartments, plus, Balfour added, "hard and soft landscaping works designed to create VIP access to London's O2 arena". A spokesman for the builder said stars playi
Hyundai Heavy, a Shipbuilder, to Open First Luxury Resort in Gangneung, South Korea
July 5, 2013
July 05--SEOUL (The Korea Herald/ANN) -- Hyundai Heavy Industries, the nation's top shipbuilder, will open its first luxury resort in Gangneung, a city on the east coast in Gangwon province, in 2015 by rebuilding its Hotel Hyundai near the Gyeongpodae beach, the company said in a press release on Thursday. Richard Meier, an American architect and a winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, will design the high-end resort, which will have a 'hanok' hotel, a 15-floor convention center, an outdoor performance hall, and a swimming pool. the company added. The plan to build a landmark resort in the east coast had been pushed after Gangneung
The 200-room Double Tree by Hilton Oceanfront in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina Opens
July 4, 2013
A New Life for the Former Sheraton Closed by Hurricane Irene July 04, 2013--ATLANTIC BEACH -- Travelers aren't the only ones benefiting from the reopening of Carteret County's largest beachfront hotel. Debra Peterson, owner of Coastal Crafts Plus at Atlantic Station, a shopping center near the new Double Tree by Hilton Oceanfront in Atlantic Beach, said each guest who stays at the 200-room hotel is a potential customer for local businesses. She said the closing of the hotel, which was formerly a Sheraton, left a void in the community and it is nice to see it back in business. It opened just in time for the July 4th holiday season, the
Owner of Monarch Cove Inn in Capitola, CA Proposes Demolition and Rebuild to Create Upscale Hotel
July 4, 2013
July 04--CAPITOLA -- The longtime owner of the 11-room Monarch Cove Inn bed-and-breakfast on Depot Hill is proposing a $9 million makeover involving restoration, demolition and new construction to create a 41-room upscale oceanview hotel. The site atop coastal bluffs at the end of El Salto Drive was developed in 1895 as a private estate but since 1946 was operated as a summer resort when Joseph Tabacchini, who later became mayor, bought the property with his wife. After two changes of ownership, the city declared the cottages unsafe in 1989 and the current owner, Robert Blodgett, undertook renovations and reopened the resort in 1991. Bl
Nakheel Creates Hospitality and Leisure Division to Oversee Developments Headed by Thorsten Ries
July 4, 2013
Several Hotels in Nakheel's Project Pipeline July 04, 2013--Nakheel is expanding its business portfolio with the creation of a new division -- Nakheel Hospitality and Leisure -- to focus on the company's growing number of hotels, beach clubs and community recreation centres. The new division, headed by newly-appointed managing director Thorsten Ries, will oversee the development and operations of Nakheel's hotels and clubs -- a key element of the company's business strategy. Nakheel is building a 240-room hotel at Dragon Mart, as part of its major expansion of the China-themed mall, a five-star, 40-storey hotel that will form part of t
Hawai’i Convention Center Gets New Skipper; AEG Facilities Selected as SMG Hawaii Ousted
July 4, 2013
July 04, 2013--The Hawaii Tourism Authority has ousted SMG Hawaii, which has run the underperforming Hawai'i Convention Center since it opened in 1998, and awarded the facility's next contract to AEG Facilities of Los Angeles. The tourism authority selected AEG Facilities on Wednesday from a field of four applicants, which included the incumbent SMG Hawaii, as well as Global Spectrum LP of Philadelphia and Honolulu's CBRE Group Inc. The contract with SMG Hawaii, which routinely fell short of expectations to fill Hawaii hotel rooms with high-spending business visitors, will expire in December. AEG Facilities, which begins a five-year ce
Large Resorts and Solar Power – Westin St. Maarten Captures Caribbean Sun for Energy Consumption
Westin. St. Maarten Resort & Spa | July 3, 2013
First Westin in World and Only Major Property in Caribbean Installs Phase One of Solar Panels to Offset Resort's Energy Consumption; Investment Saves Equivalent of Annual Power for 111 Homes, or CO2 Emissions from Driving 1.2 Million Miles in an SUV PHILIPSBURG, ST MAARTEN (July, 2013) – While environmental initiatives may seem standard in the upscale, boutique hospitality industry, there is plenty of room for tourism organizations to make strides to advance green lodging, especially in the area of solar power. According to the Energy Policy and Sector Analysis in the Caribbean (2010 – 2011), the"Caribbean islands have the potential