Would you like a shiatsu massage with your new condo? How about a bone-density test?
Arizona’s Canyon Ranch, regarded as the most glittering brand in the $10 billion spa industry, has branched into real estate, and on Wednesday will roll out a marketing campaign for the 67-story condo-hotel at Huron and Rush Streets that will bear [...]

Aconex has been selected to provide its web-based project collaboration service to the new beachfront Marriott Renaissance Hotel development in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Aconex will allow project participants to manage all their project information online – saving time, cutting administrative costs and reducing risk.
The 323-room Renaissance Bahrain Amwaj Islands Hotel is being constructed on a [...]

In its endeavor to continually help its community, the Jordan Valley Marriott Resort & Spa employs more than 30% of its employees from the local village of Sweimeh, located near the Resort. Several young women from Sweimeh have chosen to work for the resort and have excelled in their different jobs.
One of these young [...]

A five-star hotel under the franchised Marriott Hotels brand could soon be established in Kingston, George-town, in direct competition with the 250-room Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort and the well-established Le Meridien Pegasus.
This newspaper understands that a consortium of private developers, which includes foreign investors, has expressed interest and has begun groundwork for the construction [...]

Across Southwest Florida, real estate agents are reporting sales, showing activity and buyer interest that suggests the region could be emerging from its real estate doldrums.
In January, Michael Saunders & Co.’s call center received 3,375 serious inquiries, “which matches almost exactly the call activity at the height of the boom,” said spokesman Tom Heatherman.
In January [...]

Nina R. Eldred, former vice president and assistant general counsel for Marriott International and The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, has joined Holland & Knight’s Global Hospitality and Resort Team as a senior counsel in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.
Eldred is recognized as one of the leading hospitality lawyers representing hotel owners and operators in the acquisition, [...]

The owners of the 11-story Sunset Towers condominiums near the Ritz-Carlton Hotel once had unobstructed views of the blue waters of Sarasota Bay.
That is, at least, until Vista Bay Point, The Phoenix and a half dozen other buildings went up on Golden Gate Point. Today, many Sunseters can still see the water from their balconies [...]

After a long run of rampant price increases, the once lofty world of condo sales has recently come down to earth. The years of double-digit gains are over and appreciation of San Francisco condos isn’t even keeping up with inflation.
But to twist an old cliche: Fear of penury is the mother of invention.
Lately, developers have [...]

For his attempt to illegally videotape singer Michael Jackson, Jeffrey Borer is being detained in an unusual locale — Los Angeles’ Ritz-Carlton hotel.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Borer, who was sentenced last October for his role in a illegal 2003 videotape of Jackson, had been ordered to undergo home detention at the lavish hotel.
His [...]

Bunker Hill will be the home of a five-star Mandarin Oriental hotel as part of the $2.05 billion Grand Avenue project, officials announced last week.
Related Cos., developer of the Grand Avenue project that will stretch along the top of Bunker Hill and include approximately 2,600 housing units and 449,000 square feet of retail, said that [...]

The Ritz-Carlton hotel and condominium tower proposed off Atlantic Street and Tresser Boulevard is the third proposal for the site since 2000.
F.D. Rich Co., which built much of the downtown skyline in its role as the city’s urban redeveloper, had previously planned a 330-foot-tall office building on the site and a two-building development featuring a [...]

CNL Hotel & Resorts Inc., the nation’s second-largest hotel real estate investment trust, said Friday it agreed to be bought in two separate deals worth about $5.53 billion combined.
Orlando-based CNL said Morgan Stanley Real Estate would pay about $3.13 billion, or $20.50 per share, in cash. Including assumed debt, the total transaction is valued at [...]