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Industry news for the week of September 7, 2009
HIRINGS/PROMOTIONS:
Hilton Hotels Corp. has hired Kenneth Svendsen as senior vice president and global head of sales and reservations and Paul Ades as senior vice president of labor relations.
Martin O'Dowd, a 30-year restaurant industry veteran, has been appointed president of Hurricane AMT LLC, franchisor of the 30-unit Hurricane Grill & Wings chain. Dowd's career includes stints at Famous Dave's of America, Rainforest Café, Elephant & Castle, Inc., Hard Rock Cafe International, Steak & Ale and Holiday Inn Worldwide.
Starbucks Coffee Co. has appointed Annie Young-Scrivner global chief marketing officer, Michelle Gass to the newly created role of president, Seattle's Best Coffee, and John Culver president, global consumer products and foodservice.
Michael Palmer has been appointed executive director of Select Registry, an association of more than 400 fine inns, luxury B&Bs and boutique hotels in North America.
SB Architects announced the following executive appointments: Scott Lee, president; Joseph Andriola, senior vice president; and John Eller, president emeritus. Lee is in the firm's San Francisco office, while Andriola is in Miami.
OPENINGS/RENOVATIONS/BRAND NEWS:
Hard Rock International as opened its second Hard Rock Café in Las Vegas, a 950-seat restaurant/1,000-chair concert hall complex in the Showcase Mall on Las Vegas Boulevard. (The company's other cafe in Las Vegas is in the Hard Rock Hotel on Paradise Road.)
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has opened the 125-room Hotel Indigo Durham-Research Triangle Park in Durham, N.C., the first of five properties planned for the state (the others will be in Asheville; Charlotte, Wilmington and Winston Salem). IHG is also adding two Holiday Inn Express hotels in the Los Angeles market: The 160-room Holiday Inn Express Los Angeles-LAX Airport and the 120-room Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Los Angeles Airport Hawthorne.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has opened the Aloft brand's first adaptive reuse project, in downtown Dallas. The 193-room hotel is housed in a historic railroad freight depot that dates to 1924.
The Allison Spa has opened on the second story of the 85-room Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg, Ore. The 15,000-square-foot spa features 12 treatment rooms and a private suite for small gatherings and special occasions.
Tecton Hospitality has been selected as the new management company for the 152-room Clarion Gainesville Hotel West in Gainesville, Fla.
The Salish Lodge & Spa in Snoqualmie, Wash., will renovate its 89 guest rooms this fall. The project, slated to start later this month and be finished in early December, involves updating the lodge's rooms with custom-built furniture, carpet, bedding and décor, all inspired by the lodge's Northwest setting. Seattle-based Dawson Design Associates is creating the new look for the rooms.
The 502-room Sheraton Atlantic City Convention Center Hotel has hired Tozour Energy Systems Inc. to implement an energy reduction plan as part of New Jersey's Clean Energy Program's Pay for Performance Program.
BUSINESS BRIEFS:
Interior design firm Yabu Pushelberg announced the October release of a 220-page book detailing several of its high-profile hotel, retail, restaurant and residential projects. Clients whose projects are featured in the book include Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, St. Regis Hotels, Louis Vuitton, Bergdorf Goodman, Tiffany & Co., Carolina Herrera and Lane Crawford.
HELPING OUT:
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has pledged up to $1million over a five year period to fund research at Oxford University's Department of Plant Sciences. IHG said it will use this research “to inform its future hotel design and operations.” The company said it will fund the donation by asking members of its Priority Club Rewards program to switch from paper to online statements. IHG says that move will save it up to $400,000 a year, half of which will go to the Oxford research initiative.
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