Category: barry sternlicht
First Baccarat Hotels & Residences in Continental US: Baccarat Buckhead Hotel & Residences
Well this announcement came as a total surprise! Starwood Capital Group & Ben Carter Properties are planning to build a Baccarat Hotel & Residences within the Streets of Buckhead project in Atlanta Georgia! This Baccarat project will be the first location within the Continental United States and will also include a Baccarat Crystal Boutique – [...]
Starwood Capital Group Redesigns Website
Normally it would not be news to anyone when a holding company redesigns their website – but today Starwood Capital Group redesigned their website, and finally explained some questions I always had about them, as well as put front and center their “Hotel Group” StarwoodCapital.com had a website for years which really wasn’t very functional. [...]
Baccarat Hotel & Residences Temenos, Anguilla Announced
UPDATE 2/21/08 – I just checked Flag Luxury Properties website (www.flagluxury.com) and discovered that Baccarat will be the hotel brand within the Temenos Anguilla resort. Baccarat will be branded on a 114 hotel, and 50 private residences. Another 18 estate homes, 10 temenos villas and 38 spa villas will not be under the Baccarat brand, yet still within the [...]
2008 In The Hotel Industry
UPDATED: 1/8/08 – Updated address for Louvre Hotel Group Development Website 2008 is shaping up to be a very eventful year for a number of reason – the Presidential elections in November, the war in Iraq, the price of oil, the possibility of a recession due to the sub-prime mortgage industry. 2008 could easily end [...]
Atlanta, the New Luxury Hotel Capital of America
Ok, maybe I’m overdoing it a little, but it seems to me that almost every luxury brand that doesn’t already have an appearance in the Atlanta, Georgia area – or its Buckhead suburb will have one in the next few years. By and large – W Hotels is leading the pack. Currently there is 1 [...]
Renderings of the 1 Hotel & Residences in New York City’s Bryant Park
It’s no secret that Barry Sternlicht’s 1 Hotels & Residences is opening one of their first 1 Hotels in New York City’s Bryant Park, directly across from the New York Public Library on 40th Street; but what has been a “secret” are the renderings of the building which will be built on the site. I [...]
Crillon on 57th in New York City
It’s all but official that Starwood Capital’s first Crillon hotel in New York City (and possibly America) will be located in the Steinway Building on 57th Street in Manhattan. If you recall, this building was purchased by Starwood Capital over the summer and is right next to the Ritz Cleaners which was purchased by Starwood [...]
Starwood Capital’s Baccarat Hotels & Resorts Launches Website
I just noticed today that Starwood Capital’s new Baccarat Hotels & Resorts launched their website at www.baccarathotels.com. Unfortunately, right now its nothing more than a placeholder with their logo and some emotional text which attempts to give a feel for the brand, along with a link to Baccarat’s first location Baccarat Wailea – not much [...]
Starwood Capital’s new division: Starwood Land Ventures, LLC
Yesterday I came across a news bit on the PR Newswire: Starwood Capital Group and John Peshkin Form New Joint Venture to Focus on Land Acquisitions Starwood Capital Group Global, LLC, a leading international development and real estate investment firm, announced today the formation of Starwood Land Ventures, L.L.C., a new joint venture with John [...]
More on Casino Investments
Yesterday I posted a pretty lengthy entry about how casinos are the “next big thing” in real estate investment, and in that post I made some pretty bold predictions about how I thought that Starwood Capital would probably get involved in investing in casino developments… Well – today I came across a number of news articles (some [...]
Starwood Capital Keeps Growing
I read a lot, I get two newspapers delivered to my door every morning, I have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal online, and I frequently read the NYTimes.com throughout the day – that’s in addition to the 170-odd feeds that I’m subscribed too in Google Reader (usually averaging about 150 posts a day).. [...]

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