The Plaza Hotel has reopened after a three-year, $400 million renovation, bringing landmark luxury back to Manhattan.
“They say this place is the world’s most famous hotel,” said doorman Freddy Davila, who worked for the hotel for 15 years before it closed in 2005. As he welcomed hundreds of visitors up the red-carpeted steps and through [...]

Beth Collingz, Marketing director for PLC International Marketing Networks, which is exclusively marketing the Lancaster Suites and Lancaster – The Atrium Hotel Condominiums in Metro Manila, said “buyers are investors in hotel-condos, a real estate product that combines the flexibility of ownership of a condo in a hotel setting. Popular in the United States, Europe [...]

Like a cat with nine lives, the venerable downtown Aladdin Hotel will reopen — again — on May 4.
The event will mark the 193-room, 16-story tower’s second go-round as a Holiday Inn franchise after two stints as Embassy on the Park, a stretch under the Days Inn flag and most recently as the independent Citi [...]

New York City-based developer Related has razed the St. Regis Hotel and has started construction on its 42-story condominium project, called the Century. The 140-unit development, designed by Robert A.M. Stern, will feature condos from 2,400 sf to 10,000 sf on a four-acre site on the Avenue of the Stars adjacent to the Hyatt Regency [...]

The Queen’s grocer, Fortnum & Mason, is in talks to open a food hall at New York’s famous Plaza Hotel in the hope that the big apple’s wealthiest and most glamorous residents will develop a taste for gourmet hampers stuffed with British delicacies.
The Piccadilly-based retailer has held talks with El-Ad Properties, a Manhattan property developer, [...]

Major hotel brands, expecting another year of rising profits in the United States, have set their sights on Asia as the next big market for the lodging industry.
InterContinental Hotels Group, the world’s largest hotelier which also operates Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotels, “is investing in our brands and diversifying geographically. We’re strong in [...]

Carlson Hotels Worldwide Monday announced the rebranding of a 159-room Chandler hotel as the Radisson Phoenix-Chandler following a $4 million renovation.
The former Park Plaza hotel, owned by Hospitality Properties Trust, is located at 7475 W. Chandler Blvd.
The conversion is part of a renovation that began in early 2005 when Carlson Hotels Worldwide first [...]

A hotel on Hilton Head Island has a new name - its third in less than a year - and a $1 million facelift.
In the past year, the hotel has gone from the “Hilton Head Plaza Hotel and Suites” to the “Hilton Head Grand” before the new owners put out the name “Hilton Head Metropolitan [...]

At its opening, the hotel on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford was described as almost too luxurious for the city.
Today, its owner is marketing the vacant, decaying structure as worth $10 million - but there are no takers. Hartford’s mayor says the building should be torn down.
The 12-story hotel, empty for a dozen years, has [...]

From the very beginning, the Dupont Plaza Hotel (formally called the Dupont Tarleton Hotel), this glass and steel box at the mouth of the Miami River, was hyped as the city’s first giant step into modern living.
Brothers Albert and Walter Jacobs built the hotel — which was part of a larger waterfront complex — for [...]

The sale of the Hualalai Resort in Hawaii closed today in a transaction that included the second largest publicly reported hotel sale in U.S. history.
The buyers were MSD Capital L.P. and Rockpoint Group L.L.C. Jones Lang LaSalle, which handled the sale and buyer financing on the transaction, said the deal, including the land value, had [...]