MHI Hospitality Corporation announced that the Company has completed the acquisition of the 172-room former Radisson Hotel in Hampton, Virginia for approximately $7.75 million, or $45,000 per room. The Company has also entered into a 10-year franchise agreement with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [(LON: IHG) (NYSE: IHG - News; ADRs)] through its franchising entity, Holiday [...]
The Rezidor Hotel Group will bring its fresh and energetic mid-market brand Park Inn to the holy city of Makkah in Q1-2009: The Al Diyafa Park Inn Makkah will be in the Al Zahir area approximately three kilometres from the Haram, the mosque of the prophet. It adds 221 rooms to the Rezidor portfolio – [...]
The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2009.
Mounir Haidar, Sorouh’s CEO commented: ‘Our association with Luxury Real Estate is based on a common vision of providing luxurious yet affordable living where residents can live close to work and enjoy downtown cosmopolitan living.’
Adjacent to the Sky Tower and the Gate District in [...]
Salhia Real Estate has announced recently its achievements and expansion plans in a recent assembly meeting, following results of fiscal year 2006 performance.
Mr. Ghazi Fahad Alnafisi, Chairman and Managing Director, said the end of the fiscal year 2006 announced the expansion in the scale of the company projects, which became bigger than before in the [...]
This is the first look at the new hotel planned for the £500 million Cabot Circus development.
The 150-bedroom hotel, run by the Future Inns chain, will face on to Bond Street South, opposite the shopping centre forming the main part of the Broadmead expansion.
Future Inns has submitted a planning application to Bristol City [...]
A CHURCH has sacrificed part of its prime city centre site in a £900,000 deal which will see a new budget hotel built.
St Patrick’s in the Cowgate has leased a corner of land at the front of the church so that it can raise enough money to build a new community hall.
Today the parish [...]
STUNNED hotel guests were ushered to safety after a tornado ripped the roof off the building as freak weather conditions battered East Anglia.
The twister was first spotted shortly before 5pm on Saturday in the car park of the Days Inn, Phoenix Road, Haverhill.
The storm then ripped up massive strips of the building’s aluminium roof and [...]
Milwaukee’s Park East corridor will be the new home for a 180-room Kimpton hotel on the $104 million, mixed-use development proposed by Ruvin Development, Mequon, and Gatehouse Capital Corp., Dallas.
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group, based in San Francisco, operates 43 luxury hotels in the United States, including three in Chicago — Hotel Monaco, Hotel [...]
The world’s largest railway museum is home to a wide range of railway icons and literally millions of artefacts, from Mallard - the world’s fastest steam locomotive - to a lock of Robert Stephensons hair.
Its vast collections, including more than 100 engines, tell the railway tale from Rocket to Eurostar.
Permanent displays include the jewel [...]
Norfolk
You won’t catch Her Majesty in a kiss-me-quick hat, but this is her number-one beach, all the same. She favours it for corgi-walking when up at Sandringham, and it takes but the wit of a whelk to see why. Beyond its shapely dunes lie three miles of creamy, pancake-flat perfection.
Holkham is easy to miss, though. [...]
Pembrokeshire
It’s the sense of contrast that singles this place out. Here, in Wales’s southwestern corner, the land is barely a mile wide, and yet its sides are as different as Land’s End is from Lowestoft. On the eastern shore is the leafy village of Dale, sheltered from wind and waves and heaven-sent for anyone who [...]
A MULTI-MILLION pound hotel, to be built at the heart of Slough, was due to be granted council approval last night.
Slough Borough Council officers have recommended that the proposal to build a nine-storey hotel, opposite Slough railway station, should be given the green light.
Councillors were due to approve the hotel at the planning meeting yesterday [...]
