Posts Tagged ‘waterfront hotel’

MHI Hospitality Corporation Receives Economic Development Award for Hampton, VA Asset

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

MHI Hospitality Corporation announced today that the Company received the Stakeholder of the Year Award for the Crowne Plaza Hampton Harborside. The award was presented by the Downtown Hampton Development Partnership in recognition of a business or individual that contributed significantly to the city’s new development or redevelopment over the past year. The Stakeholder [...]

MHI Hospitality Corporation Closes Acquisition of Hampton, Virginia Asset

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

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 [...]

Waterfront hotel outlined for marina

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

A hotel could return to the downtown waterfront, the city’s docks would extend farther out into the Intracoastal Waterway and the city would finally free itself from a loser of a lease under a complex plan for a major overhaul of the city’s Palm Harbor Marina to be announced today.
The plan, which also calls for [...]

DiamondRock Announces It Has Acquired 100,000 Square Feet of Retail Space Attached to the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

DiamondRock Hospitality Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of the leasehold interest in 100,000 square feet of retail space in a building attached to the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel. DiamondRock intends to convert a portion of the building into prime meeting and exhibit space and lease the remainder to prime upscale restaurants. The [...]

DiamondRock Announces It Has Entered Into an Agreement to Purchase the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

DiamondRock Hospitality Company announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with a Boston based developer to acquire the leasehold interest in the recently built 793-room Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, which is attached to the recently built convention center in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, the acquisition [...]

DiamondRock Hospitality Company Announces Public Offering of Common Stock

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

DiamondRock Hospitality Company announced that it plans to sell 14,500,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. The company also plans to grant the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 2,175,000 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any. All of the shares will be offered by the [...]

Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel to be sold for $330M

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

DiamondRock Hospitality Company announced Wednesday it has agreed to buy the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, including retail space, for $330.3 million.
Boston Convention Center Hotel LLC — comprised of developers Joseph Fallon, Stephen Karp, Steven Fischman and Joseph O’Donnell — agreed to sell the 793-room hotel, its 100,000-square feet of retail space and an adjacent parcel [...]

Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel sold

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

A Maryland company said today it has agreed to buy the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel for $330.3 million.
The hotel is attached to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
The buyer, DiamondRock Hospitality Co., said it has agreed to acquire a leasehold interest in the 793-room hotel and some other assets such as an option to acquire [...]

First Waterfront boutique hotel launched in Manila

Friday, November 24th, 2006

G Hotel Manila by Waterfront, the first boutique hotel in the country was launched last Nov. 17 in the city of Manila.
This is another first from the largest Filipino-owned and managed first class hotel chain in the archipelago.
Waterfront Hotels and Casinos, the biggest Filipino-owned and managed first class hotel chain in the country added a [...]

471-room waterfront hotel gets a steel topping-off

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

To the sound of bagpipes and drum, a 25-foot-long steel beam, painted white and decorated with a US flag and signatures of steelworkers from Local 7 and others, was raised at the topping-off of the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in South Boston. Construction on the 471-room hotel at D and Congress streets began a year [...]