Category: ian schrager
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 [...]
W Hotels Gets Its Own Fashion Director and Music Curator
W Hotels is about to announce two new positions: Fashion Director and Music Curator. Two positions that you’d never think to find in a international boutique hotel brand.
Morgans Enters Boston With the Ames Hotel
Morgans Hotel Group is finally revving up the expansion machine that they have been talking about for so long with the announcement that they are going to be developing the Ames Hotel in the Ames Building located in downtown Boston.This hotel designed by the Rockwell Group will be a complete conversion of a former office [...]
The Edition Hotels Logo
Last month with great interest from the hotel development community Marriott & Ian Schrager finally announced the name and details of their new venture together: Edition Hotels. Not much information was revealed except for the usual – where the first locations would be, and the fact that each location would be unique and designed differently [...]
I Could Never Be A Journalist
Whew, well I just finished my two days of being a guest editor at HotelChatter.com, I’ll post links to all of my 11 articles at the bottom of this post, but I wanted to say: I could never be a journalist!Even though HotelChatter is not the equivalent of a daily newspaper, or even a magazine, [...]
Chicago Edition Hotel Reveled
Thanks to the intrepid investigating of Kal B, he pointed me to some initial renderings & the address of what is supposed to be the Chicago Edition, located at 150 East Ontario. This building has been in development for some time, and I think its only recently that it was decided to be branded as [...]
Edition Hotels – Schrager & Marriott’s REAL Brand Name
Today at the ALIS Conference in Los Angeles, Marriott & Ian Schrager will officially announce the name of their new hotel brand, and unlike the “scoop” reported by the New York Post – it is to be called “Edition Hotels”, not “Schrager Hotels”. According to the NY Post, the hotel company was supposed to be [...]
The 2008 ALIS Conference Starts Tomorrow
For the past few years that I have taken a deep interest in the hotel industry – subscribing to industry magazines, tracking hotel brands, learning about the industry etc, the one industry conference that seems to make the most “commotion” is the yearly ALIS Conference held in Los Angeles in January of every year. I was [...]
Rumored Brand Name for Marriott/Schrager’s New Hotels – “Schrager Hotels”
UPDATED: Added information about the Marriot South Beach’s initial opening Just read an article from the New York Post today which claimed that the name of the new Marriott/Schrager Hotels are going to be simply called “Schrager Hotels” Original huh? I was expecting and hoping that the brand would be something a little more original – [...]
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