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- April 19, 2010: 1 Hotel Washington DC Still Delayed
- November 16, 2009: Barry Sternlicht Interviewed by Maria Bartiromo on Mentoring Madness during Global Entrepreneurship Week.
- October 19, 2009: 1Hotels.com Finally Gets A Refresh
- September 6, 2009: Starwood Looking To Sell Societe Du Louvre Hotels Piece by Piece
- June 10, 2009: Starwood Capital’s 1 Hotels and Baccarat Brands Expanding First Into China
- May 13, 2009: Rumors of 1 Hotels Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
- April 12, 2009: 1 Hotel Washington Continues On (And Pictures!)
- February 5, 2009: Starwood Capital’s SH Group
- January 3, 2009: Economy Be Damned. Real “Green” Is Here To Stay
- December 2, 2008: 1 Hotel Washington DC To Have Groundbreaking Soon?
- November 13, 2008: So Maybe Atlanta Isn’t The Luxury Hotel Capital After All
- September 3, 2008: Interesting News On Starwood Capital’s W. 57th Street Property
- July 17, 2008: Starwood Capital Prepares Mammoth Mountain For Growth
- June 25, 2008: Seattle Times: News on 1 Hotel Seattle & 1 Hotel Vancouver
- June 17, 2008: Barry Sternlicht at the NYU Conference
- June 12, 2008: 1 Hotel Buckhead and Baccarat Buckhead Renderings!
- June 12, 2008: Why I Want To Work At Starwood Capital
- June 12, 2008: 1 Hotel Cleveland & New York
- May 8, 2008: 1 Hotels & 1 Hotel Scottsdale Still Moving Along
- March 27, 2008: Fort Lauderdale Removed from 1 Hotels Website
- March 25, 2008: 1 Hotel Fort Lauderdale
- February 14, 2008: Rendering of 1 Hotel Washington DC
- February 1, 2008: First Baccarat Hotels & Residences in Continental US: Baccarat Buckhead Hotel & Residences
- December 10, 2007: Atlanta, the New Luxury Hotel Capital of America
- December 2, 2007: Renderings of the 1 Hotel & Residences in New York City’s Bryant Park
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- March 7, 2011: Caesars Centurion Tower Changing to Nobu Hotel
- January 25, 2011: Revel AC Apparently Revived – By NJ’s Governor Christie
- December 15, 2010: Cosmopolitan Las Vegas – Finally Open!
- September 21, 2010: Wyndham Worldwide Licenses Planet Hollywood Name For Franchising
- September 21, 2010: Boardwalk Empire & The Former Ritz-Carlton In Atlantic City – A Quick Overview
- September 8, 2010: Trump Entertainment Puts Trump Marina On The Market
- August 11, 2010: Hard Rock Hotel or Planet Hollywood Finally Coming to Atlantic City?
- April 26, 2010: Starwood Capital Now Has The Rio Casino In It’s Sights
- July 9, 2009: Trump Marina Sale Is Off
- April 30, 2009: Icahn Doesn’t Own The Tropicana Yet..
- April 25, 2009: Carl Icahn Close To Getting The Tropicana Atlantic City
- March 24, 2009: Dubai World Giving MGMMirage It’s Biggest Problem Yet
- February 11, 2009: Tropicana’s New Marketing Push Mainly Intended For Las Vegas Property
- February 3, 2009: Tropicana AC May Go To Auction, While the Owners Want to Rebrand It
- February 2, 2009: MGM Mirage Looking To Sell Some Land in AC
- January 28, 2009: Construction Slowing At Revel Casino In Atlantic City
- January 26, 2009: Atlantic City’s Tropicana Hotel Is Pathetic
- January 25, 2009: Colony Capital Losing Resorts AC To Foreclosure
- January 14, 2009: Plans For FontaineBleau To Open In Atlantic City?
- December 24, 2008: Atlantic City’s Bader Field RFP Deadline Extended
- November 13, 2008: And Another Casino Is Being Planned In Atlantic City
- October 31, 2008: MGM Delays Atlantic City & Las Vegas Developments
- July 24, 2008: The Chelsea Atlantic City Opens (Partially)
- July 16, 2008: Prasada: Atlantic City’s Third Boutique Hotel?
- May 9, 2008: MGM Mirage Considering A Split of Hotel & Casino Operations
- April 2, 2008: The Chelsea Atlantic City Renderings
- February 27, 2008: Pinnacle Entertainment Dropping Out of Atlantic City?
- February 14, 2008: The Chelsea Atlantic City’s Website Is Launched
- January 11, 2008: Colony Capital Places First Bid on the Tropicana in Atlantic City
- December 13, 2007: How Tropicana’s License Woes Will Help Atlantic City
- November 26, 2007: Planet Hollywood Casinos Expanding to Atlantic City
- November 13, 2007: Revel Entertainment Reveals Their Plans
- October 16, 2007: Sands Casino Implosion Information
- October 10, 2007: MGM Grand Atlantic City: Coming Soon
- September 24, 2007: Implosion Date and Time of former Sand’s Casino Hotel Confirmed
- September 6, 2007: Atlantic City Gets It’s First Boutique Hotel – The Chelsea!
- September 3, 2007: Morgan Stanley Building a Ultra-Luxury Casino in Atlantic City
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- October 23, 2011: Starwood Capital Opens Second Postcard Inn Hotel Location
- June 18, 2011: First Picture & Info on Starwood Capital & Tribeca Associates 53rd Street Hotel Project
- April 30, 2011: Great Story on Starwood Capital
- March 30, 2011: CerXus Makes Mistake By Rejecting Starwood Property Trust Takeover Attempt
- March 21, 2011: Starwood Capital Makes Second Entry into NYC Hotel Market in Two Months
- January 31, 2011: Starwood Capital Buys 1414 Ave of the Americas for Hotel Conversion
- December 16, 2010: Ian Schrager is Back.. Again.. With Schrager Hotels
- September 28, 2010: Gary Barnett, Planet Hollywood Hotel Times Square and W Times Square
- July 14, 2010: Riviera Finally Might Be Under Starwood Capitals Control
- June 6, 2010: Starwood Capital Purchases 49.9% of Hersha Hospitality Management
- November 29, 2009: History of Starwood Capital’s Louvre Hotel Group
- November 26, 2009: iStar Financial Takes Over Asbury Partners
- November 19, 2009: B.R. Guest & Starwood Capital Open the Post Card Inn on the Beach
- September 30, 2009: Starwood Capital Shows Interest In Extended Stay Hotels
- August 17, 2009: Starwood Capital Completes Golden Tulip Purchase
- July 8, 2009: Starwood Capital Has An Impressive Showing In Hotel Magazine’s “325 Largest Hotel Companies”
- July 4, 2009: Starwood Capital Signs Binding Agreement For Golden Tulip Purchase
- June 14, 2009: Starwood Capital Purchases Golden Tulip Hotels
- June 10, 2009: Starwood Capital Puts It’s Crillon Hotel On The Market
- January 6, 2009: Starwood’s Annick Goutal Brand Direction
- December 12, 2008: MetroBank – “America’s Next Great Bank” – Coming Soon
- December 8, 2008: Lightstone To Lose Extended Stay, So What Happens Next?
- April 27, 2008: Element: The Greening of Starwood Hotels
- April 2, 2008: Elvis Themed Resort Being Planned for Vegas
- January 7, 2008: Starwood Capital Group Redesigns Website
- January 7, 2008: Baccarat Hotel & Residences Temenos, Anguilla Announced
- January 4, 2008: 2008 In The Hotel Industry
- November 27, 2007: Crillon on 57th in New York City
- October 29, 2007: Starwood Capital’s Baccarat Hotels & Resorts Launches Website
- September 12, 2007: Starwood Capital’s new division: Starwood Land Ventures, LLC
- September 4, 2007: More on Casino Investments
- August 26, 2007: Starwood Capital Keeps Growing
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- December 22, 2010: Hilton & Starwood Hotels Finally Settle Denizen Debacle
- December 1, 2010: UK Metro Bank’s Launch Success
- October 25, 2010: Ian Schrager’s Looking to Create Not 1, but 2 Hotel Brands (and Edition doesn’t count)
- October 14, 2010: What’s Up With Doubletree’s New Logo and Name?
- September 20, 2010: Wal-Mart Will Expand Via Marketside Concept In Urban Areas
- May 14, 2010: Disney World Finishing and Rebranding Unfinished Resort
- November 14, 2009: Metro Bank UK Ramping Up Promotions
- November 14, 2009: Marriott Creates “The Autograph Collection”
- November 6, 2009: Starwood Sells Bliss Spas
- October 7, 2009: Starwood vs Hilton Going to Grand Jury
- August 10, 2009: Hilton Reportedly Having Breakup Talks With Blackstone
- July 29, 2009: Everyone is Jumping the Gun on the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas
- July 10, 2009: What Happened to Hilton’s Denizen?
- July 9, 2009: Global Hyatt Changes Their Name to Hyatt Hotels Corporation – Finally
- July 8, 2009: MetroBank Gets Served First Lawsuit For Its Branding
- July 7, 2009: Starwood Capital Not Purchasing All Golden Tulip Company Owned Hotels
- June 30, 2009: W Hotels Gets Its Own Fashion Director and Music Curator
- June 18, 2009: Arrogance Forced Abercrombie and Fitch To Close Ruehl
- June 16, 2009: Metro Bank’s Failed Re-Launch
- June 15, 2009: Metro Bank’s New Website Launched
- June 8, 2009: Commerce Bank/Harrisburg Conversion into Metro Bank is Underway
- May 1, 2009: Hilton Ad from 2008 – “Family Value. Without Family Drama”
- April 24, 2009: Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Just Can Never Catch A Break
- April 21, 2009: Work Is Suspended on Hilton’s Denizen Brand
- April 19, 2009: Starwood Hotels and Resorts Has A New Modern, Playful and Fun Logo
- April 17, 2009: Hilton Has Serious Issues To Get Through With This Starwood Lawsuit
- February 3, 2009: Pennsylvania’s Metro Bank Progressing
- January 21, 2009: Holiday Inn Brands Delaying Re-Branding
- January 14, 2009: Africa Israel Looking to Build Worlds Largest Hotel on Former W Las Vegas Land
- January 9, 2009: Hilton Definitely Launching New Lifestyle Brand In March
- December 22, 2008: W Providence Resurrected From The Dead?
- December 15, 2008: Too Many Rumors On Hilton’s Boutique Brand
- November 18, 2008: Starwood Hotels Aiming for 10 W’s In England Within 10 Years
- October 28, 2008: SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills Due To Open This Week
- August 12, 2008: Aloft and Element Lexington Pictures
- July 22, 2008: Wyndham’s Purchase of USFS/Hawthorne Suites/Microtel Complete
- June 30, 2008: Walmart Gets A New Logo
- June 2, 2008: Hilton is Finally Creating a Boutique Brand
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- August 25, 2010: Cosmopolitan Las Vegas to Join Marriott’s The Autograph Collection
- October 28, 2009: Echelon Place On Hold For At Least 3 Years
- October 6, 2009: MGM Mirage Cutting City Center Project Condo Prices by 30%
- July 2, 2009: MGM Mirage Working on ‘MX’ and ‘Emblem’ Hotel Brands
- March 27, 2009: MGM’s CityCenter Gets A Reprive
- March 8, 2009: Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Updates – And My Personal Take On Things
- February 12, 2009: Bill Going Through House of Representatives Lifting Ban On Travel To Cuba
- January 25, 2009: Cosmopolitan Las Vegas’s “Secret” Website
- January 10, 2009: Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Facts
- January 9, 2009: MGM’s CityCenter’s Harmon Tower Getting Cut In Half
- January 3, 2009: Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Is Rumored To Have 1,800 Units Under Contract
- December 15, 2008: Who Is Phil Ruffin? (Hint: He’s The One Who Just Bought MGM’s Treasure Island)
- December 3, 2008: Steve Wynn’s Encore TV Commercial
- September 26, 2008: Morgans Hotel Group Renegotiates Deal With Boyd Gaming
- August 15, 2008: Cosmopolitan Las Vegas: Officially Foreclosed!! But Construction Will Continue
- July 23, 2008: SLS Hotels and Sam Nazarian’s Growing Empire
- June 19, 2008: Morgans Enters Boston With the Ames Hotel
- May 11, 2008: The Backstory of Bruce Eichner’s Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino
- March 23, 2008: W Finally Coming to Las Vegas?
- February 12, 2008: I Could Never Be A Journalist
- November 26, 2007: What Are Starwood’s Plans in Las Vegas?
- October 28, 2007: Starwood Hotels to Sell Caesars Pocono Resorts
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- June 14, 2011: What Almost Became The Biggest Little DealBreaker for 1 WTC
- June 10, 2011: Insights into Shopping Center Department Store Leases – And Apple’s Impact On Them
- April 29, 2011: The Meadowland’s Xanadu Getting New Name and Developer
- November 30, 2009: My Thoughts on Dubai
- November 20, 2009: Starwood Hotels Moving Headquarters 20 Minutes Away to Stamford, CT
- June 23, 2009: Dark Side of Dubai
- March 26, 2009: Why I’ve Been So Quiet
- March 16, 2009: Sears Tower Changing Name to “Willis Tower”
- February 15, 2009: Asbury Park’s Slow But Continual Renewal
- January 6, 2009: Lightstone Has Been Down The Foreclosure Path Before
- April 28, 2008: Quick Tour of National Harbor
- April 2, 2008: Elizabeth: The Next Hoboken?
- November 6, 2007: Is Starwood Hotels Creating an aloft Residences Product??
- October 18, 2007: The Little Company That Could – Hotels Unlimited, Inc
- October 11, 2007: Donald Trump’s At It Again
- October 9, 2007: A Starwood Capital Hotel Coming to Port Chester, NY?
- October 2, 2007: Hyatt Andaz in Austin TX Announced!
- October 1, 2007: W Harlem, or Aloft Harlem?
- September 30, 2007: W Hotel Phoenix – Cancelled – For Now…
- August 29, 2007: Asbury Park, NJ’s Renaissance
- August 23, 2007: Welcome! Now What’s This All About??
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- October 18, 2011: Starwood To Convert Millbrae Property to Aloft; Also Has Plans for An Element In Phase 2
- September 29, 2011: Perfect Example of the Media Taking A Comment Out of Context
- September 28, 2011: Hilton’s Home2 Suites Takes Over Site of Never-Built W Philadelphia
- May 9, 2010: Sears Starts Selling/Leasing Excess Real Estate Online
- June 29, 2009: 13 Story Shanghai Apartment Building Topples Over – In One Piece
- February 11, 2009: W NY Downtown Has More Problems Than Just The Deutsche Bank Building
- February 10, 2009: Details and Pictures of Bungalow hotel in Pier Village
- December 2, 2008: Park Hyatt on Extell’s W 57th Property Discovered Through Sleuthing
- September 23, 2008: What Ever Happened To The W Sunset?
- June 25, 2008: Bungalow Boutique Hotel Opening in Pier Village
- June 3, 2008: aloft Construction Updates – Charleston, National Harbor & Philadelphia
- March 24, 2008: Stamper Square, and Starwood Hotel’s Expansion in Philadelphia
- March 19, 2008: Starwood’s Caesars Brookdale in the Poconos Sold to Silverleaf Resorts
- March 17, 2008: Element’s Website Launched; Opening Dates Changed for W Hoboken, aloft Lexington
- February 27, 2008: Castro’s Resignation and Cuba’s Hotel Industry
- February 21, 2008: Introducing the aloft Long Beach – Thoughts?
- January 29, 2008: Chicago Edition Hotel Reveled
- January 27, 2008: Starwood’s aloft Launches Website!
- January 24, 2008: Update on Starwood’s Millbrae Plans
- January 24, 2008: The New York City Waterfalls
- January 23, 2008: Starwood’s Changing Plans for their San Francisco Airport Property in Millbrae, CA
- January 19, 2008: Renderings of W Philadelphia Hotel & Residences
- January 19, 2008: Starwood Hotel & Resort’s Redesigned ‘New Hotel’ Page Shows A Healthy Pipeline
- January 3, 2008: W Boston Hotel and Residences – Coming in 2009
- December 8, 2007: A Busy Week for Starwood’s LeMeridien Brand
- November 29, 2007: A W Hotel will finally open in Washington DC
- October 30, 2007: Is Washington DC Getting It’s First W Hotel?
- October 24, 2007: LodgeWorks LP: Under Funded Serial Hotel Brand Creator?
- October 22, 2007: Hyatt Andaz @ 75 Wall Street
- October 22, 2007: Loews Hotel’s Development Plan Picks Up Speed
- October 15, 2007: Starwood’s aloft and element Development Updates
- October 3, 2007: Starwood Capital’s 1 Hotel Comes to Washington, DC
- September 14, 2007: Future W Hotel Locations
- September 12, 2007: Starwood’s aloft and element in Lexington Massachusetts
- August 25, 2007: Progress of W Hoboken & W New York Downtown
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- June 11, 2010: The Jersey Shore’s Second Boutique Hotel – Cabana – Being Built in Long Branch
- May 29, 2010: Kmart Is Expanding: By Opening Kwash Laundromats
- May 13, 2008: aloft in Harlem Confirmed, Brooklyn Revealed, Plus NJ’s First Element
- March 2, 2008: Starwood Hotel’s Partnership With Jean-Georges Finally Appears
- February 28, 2008: The Edition Hotels Logo
- January 16, 2008: Rumored Brand Name for Marriott/Schrager’s New Hotels – “Schrager Hotels”
- November 20, 2007: Ian Schrager Hotel Designer – Not Hotelier
- November 12, 2007: Starwood’s LeMeridien Gets A Culture Makeover
- October 12, 2007: Will Hilton/Blackstone Develop A Boutique Brand?
- August 26, 2007: Ian Schrager and Bill Marriott? Does anyone think this will work?
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- June 25, 2009: Red Roof Inn Defaults On Property Loans, Claims Ridiculous Reason For Default
- November 5, 2008: Hawthorne & Microtel Integration into Wyndham
- June 3, 2008: Wyndham buys USFS (Microtel/Hawthorne Suites)
- February 20, 2008: Hyatt Selling Microtel & Hawthorne Suites (aka USFS)
- February 12, 2008: The Decline of the Adams Mark Brand
- November 20, 2007: How Hyatt Saves Money
- November 7, 2007: Starwood Hotels Starting to Increase Promotion of their Bliss Spa Brand?
- November 5, 2007: I’ve Been Profiled in the New York Post!
- October 27, 2007: Hyatt’s Andaz Liverpool Street Officially Opening November 15th
- August 31, 2007: Pritzker Family selling a portion of Global Hyatt Corporation
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- January 16, 2008: The Passionate Worker
- December 23, 2007: Happy Holidays Everyone!
- November 20, 2007: I am Starwood’s Number One Fan…
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