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PROMOTIONS, HIRINGS AND APPOINTMENTS:
YTL Hotels has hired James McBride as its president, effective Aug. 10. He will be based at the company's Singapore office.
Wilson Associates announced the creation of Blueplate, a new studio that offers specialized restaurant consultancy and design solutions, and has named Dan Kwan as its executive design director.
Chelsea Design Inc. has hired Meredith Paslawsky at its Miami Design District corporate office as director of business development, commercial design division.
Las Vegas-based YWS Architects announced that the following staffers have become LEED Accredited Professionals: Tom Wucherer, co-founder and principal, and Eddie Cervantes and Mike Stewart, associate architects.
Bernhard Bohnenberger, managing director of Bangkok-based Six Senses Resorts & Spas, has been appointed an honorary advisor to the President of the Senate of Thailand.
OPENINGS, RENOVATIONS AND BRAND NEWS:
Hilton Hotels Corp. announced the upcoming addition of two Doubletree properties in the U.K.: The conversion of the existing 72-room Cadbury House Hotel and Country Club near Bristol, and a 127 room new-build within the MK Dons Football Club stadium in Milton Keynes. Both properties are slated to open by the end of this year.
Interstate Hotels & Resorts has signed an agreement to manage the Holiday Inn Laredo Civic Center in Texas. The 203-room property is owned by BIA Acquisitions, a Texas-based limited partnership.
Delaware North Cos. Parks & Resorts announced the opening of an Embers Restaurant at its Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite in Fish Camp, Calif.
Concord Hospitality Enterprises announced it has secured a $10.8 million loan to build a 124-room Courtyard by Marriott Meadow Lands in Washington, Pa., that is slated to open in fall 2010.
BUSINESS BRIEFS:
WAC Lighting is sponsoring a Cornell University Team competing in The Solar Energy Decathlon, an international, interdisciplinary design-build competition hosted biennially by the U.S. Department of Energy for three weeks in October.