Category: Hoteliers
Starwood Capital Opens Second Postcard Inn Hotel Location
Starwood Capital has quietly opened a second location of their Postcard Inn hotel brand.
First Picture & Info on Starwood Capital & Tribeca Associates 53rd Street Hotel Project
After looking at Tribeca Associates website for information on their new hotel project with Starwood Capital, I came across a picture and some basic information on this large project.
CerXus Makes Mistake By Rejecting Starwood Property Trust Takeover Attempt
Starwood Property Trust put another company on the map this week – Crexus Investment Corporation – by making an unsolicited bid to purchase the entire company at a 20% premium to their current stock price. What did Crexus’ board decide to do? Reject it. Why would they do that? What company would not want to [...]
Starwood Capital Buys 1414 Ave of the Americas for Hotel Conversion
In the last few hours my email inbox has been bombarded with news that Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital has purchased 1414 Ave of the Americas in Manhattan for a conversion into a hotel. This is pretty exciting news because its one of the first purchases that Starwood has made in years on a property to [...]
Ian Schrager is Back.. Again.. With Schrager Hotels
Ian Schrager is back – again – with a new hotel company and two new hotel brands, this is in addition to his existing properties with Marriott’s Edition brand. Schrager always alluded to not being done in the hotel industry, and even when his partnership with Marriott was announced, he was very forthcoming about stating [...]
Ian Schrager’s Looking to Create Not 1, but 2 Hotel Brands (and Edition doesn’t count)
A few weeks back, USAToday’s Barbara De Lollis mentioned on her Twitter account @barbdelollis that she would be sitting down with Ian Schrager and seeing what he’s up too.. I asked her if she was going to get some details on his new brands that he was supposedly creating – not including his joint venture [...]
Starwood Capital Does Something With the Former Baccarat Wailea Property
Back in 2008 Starwood Capital announced the property they had recently purchased, the Renaissance Wailea, would be torn down and replaced as a completely new resort – Baccarat Wailea Hotel & Residences. Unfortunately, like alot of construction projects announced during that time – the project never got off the ground and was eventually canceled. Not [...]
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