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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.

Jun. 30, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

Jun. 19, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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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 from [...]

Feb. 28, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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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, [...]

Feb. 12, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

Jan. 29, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

Jan. 29, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

Jan. 27, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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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 – something [...]

Jan. 16, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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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 up [...]

Jan. 4, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 2 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

Nov. 27, 2007 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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Ian Schrager Hotel Designer – Not Hotelier

The recent interview by Portfolio Magazine’s Lloyd Grove of Ian Schrager has been getting a lot of press lately – and rightly so – you do not find too many interviews which ask deep questions and actually teach you something rather than wondering, why did i waste my time reading this? This interview further proves [...]

Nov. 20, 2007 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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