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Marriott Creates “The Autograph Collection”

Marriott has announced a new “brand” called the Autograph Collection which will be made up of individual hotels keeping their own unique identity – but having the power of the Marriott affiliation behind them.

Nov. 14, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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First Look Inside Bungalow Hotel in Pier Village

Bungalow Hotel in Pier Village will be opening in May. Earlier this week I had the opportunity to get a tour of the property to see how it was developing and ask questions about the finished hotel project

Feb. 26, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 3 comments | Continued
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Holiday Inn Brands Delaying Re-Branding

Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express are in the middle of going through a chain wide relaunch, including new logos, signs and amenities in each hotel. After alot of franchise complaints it looks like InterContinental is moving the date that all hotels need to be compliant by a full year.

Jan. 21, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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Plans For FontaineBleau To Open In Atlantic City?

In the FontaineBleau’s video for their Las Vegas location a fly-over shot of Atlantic City was included – is this a hint of things to come, or was it a video editing error? I think its more likely an editing error – but it’s fun to think of a FontaineBleau location in Atlantic City!

Jan. 14, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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Hilton’s “Hilton Prestige Portfolio”

Hilton’s luxury brands – Waldorf Astoria, Waldorf Astoria Collection, Conrad and Project Global 21 (Hilton’s new ‘Lifestyle Brand’) are going to be part of the Hilton Prestige Porfolio.

Jan. 14, 2009 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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The Chelsea Atlantic City Renderings

Earlier this week I wrote an article on Hotel Chatter about the renderings for The Chelsea in Atlantic City but I wanted to elaborate on them in a little more space than HotelChatter’s articles allow me too.
As I’ve written about numerous times on this blog – The Chelsea located in the former Holiday Inn on [...]

Apr. 2, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 1 comment | Continued
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The New York City Waterfalls

When I first started this blog one of the things I wanted to write about was design – I just realized that I really have not written too much about design except to comment on design and architecture within a hotel project.
For me personally, I am extremely interested in design – something that looks different [...]

Jan. 24, 2008 | Andrew Calvo | 1 comment | Continued
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A Busy Week for Starwood’s LeMeridien Brand

I’m a few days late with this article – but things have been hectic and I haven’t exactly had the time to sit down and sort through the articles and put together my thoughts so a decent story can come out of it.
This has been a pretty busy week for the LeMeridien brand from Starwood [...]

Dec. 8, 2007 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued
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Welcome! Now What’s This All About??

This will be interesting. For years now I’ve wanted to start a blog – some place where i can post my thoughts, some place where I can tell the world about what makes me tick – but – I also don’t want a blog where I post things like  ”Today I had a great day, I [...]

Aug. 23, 2007 | Andrew Calvo | 0 comments | Continued