September 7, 201311 yr I see that a new steakhouse, Urban Farmer, is going into the former Crown Plaza being converted into a Westin hotel in downtown Cleveland.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 7, 201311 yr Yep now we're just as cool as Portland...without all of those annoying streetcars.
September 7, 201311 yr Yep now we're just as cool as Portland...without all of those annoying streetcars. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 12, 201311 yr So how about the Westin as a canvas? Possibly new artworks on a rotating basis?? http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/landmark/agenda/2013/09122013/index.php CLEVELAND LANDMARKS COMMISSION AGENDA - September 12, 2013 Mall Historic District Westin Hotel 777 St. Clair Avenue Public art "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 12, 201311 yr I wish they would get rid of those horrible brown aluminum panels. They were probably the ugliest part of the exterior, and the one thing they appear to be saving.
September 12, 201311 yr I said the same thing to them via Facebook quite a few months ago. They basically said, but wait til you see the inside.
September 17, 201311 yr From an emailed press release....... The Westin Cleveland Downtown Hotel Announces Unique Local Art Program The Westin hotel unveiled designs for a signature public artwork by Cleveland artist Sarah Kabot at a meeting of the City’s Landmarks Commission. The large-scale work, titled Terrella, will welcome guests and visitors as they enter the newly renovated hotel. Kabot’s project will be the main showpiece for the Westin’s exciting local art program, created in partnership between hotel management and investment company Sage Hospitality and LAND studio. Artwork was targeted that draws on the region’s rich industrial heritage and Cleveland’s distinctive natural landscape to create the exciting feel of reinvention. A unique experience has been created, deeply connected to the city’s values, it is something that can’t be found anywhere else. Each of the hotel’s 484 rooms, its lobby, and public spaces will showcase established and emerging Cleveland artists. Full press release is attached. Megan E. Jones Marketing + Communications Director P 216 621 5413 x120 | W LAND-studio.org _______________________________________________ For immediate release Kate Davis Manager of Public Relations 303-595-7259 [email protected] The Westin Cleveland Downtown Hotel Announces Unique Local Art Program The Cleveland Convention Center Hotel Gains Landmark Approval for Entry Installation in Preparation for February 2014 Opening Cleveland, Ohio (September 16, 2013) – The Westin Cleveland Downtown hotel unveiled today designs for a signature public artwork by Cleveland artist Sarah Kabot at a meeting of the City’s Landmarks Commission. The large-scale work will welcome guests and visitors as they enter the newly renovated hotel. Kabot’s project will be the main showpiece for the Westin’s exciting local art program, created by a partnership between hotel management and investment company Sage Hospitality and LAND studio. LAND studio, a Cleveland-based nonprofit, specializes in public space design and connecting artists into urban redevelopment efforts. LAND studio was brought on by Sage Hospitality as part of their nationwide art program, working to bring local artwork into every Sage hotel. For the Westin Cleveland Downtown, artwork was targeted that draws on the region’s rich industrial heritage and Cleveland’s distinctive natural landscape to create the exciting feel of reinvention. A unique experience has been created, deeply connected to the city’s values, it is something that can’t be found anywhere else. “Many of the traditional industries that built Cleveland are largely gone,” said Gregory Peckham, Managing Director of LAND studio. “What remains, however, is a deep local culture that puts a high value on craftsmanship and hard work, invention and re-invention, and building a legacy for future generations. That’s what we’ve conveyed in the Westin’s art collection.” Each of the hotel’s 484 rooms, its lobby, and public spaces will showcase established and emerging Cleveland artists like Liz Maugans, Michael Loderstedt, Dana Oldfather, Jen Craun, and Anne Kibbe among many others. The pieces will decorate the expertly designed guest rooms and lobby, designed by McCartan, an award winning New York based design firm. “The lobby itself will be something impressive,” said Chaim Schochet of Optima Ventures, the ownership group of the Westin. “It will feature new works and commissioned pieces by artists like sculptor Olga Ziemska and Christi Birchfield who are based here in Cleveland but making a name for themselves across the nation.” As guests of the Westin hotel enter from St. Clair Avenue, above their heads the artwork will shine with sparkling gold, arranged to honor the landscape of Cleveland itself. The Cuyahoga River runs through the display, snaking through the piece and emptying to a foiled background behind the gold. Portal will draw Convention Center visitors and will become a point of interest in the city. For more information about this exciting hotel and booking opportunities visit their website or contact Alan Feuerman, Director of Sales and Marketing at [email protected]. About The Westin Cleveland Downtown A contemporary hotel with a classic vibe, The Westin Cleveland Downtown is located in the financial district, just steps away from Brown's Stadium, the Cleveland Convention Center and the Global Center for Health Innovation (formerly known as the Cleveland Medical Mart) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. After completion of extensive interior and exterior renovations by the Design/Build team of Marous Brothers Construction for the opening in Spring 2014, the hotel will offer 484 luxurious guest rooms all fully equipped with Westin's signature Heavenly in-room amenities, as well as a state-of-the-art fitness center, a business center, complimentary Wi-Fi and an on-site Starbucks. The hotel’s 20,000 square feet of meeting and event space can be divided into 20 separate rooms, including a 9,000 square foot Grand Ballroom. To learn more about the Westin Cleveland Downtown, visit http://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3760. About Sage Hospitality Founded in 1984, Sage Hospitality has strategically grown into one of the largest privately held hotel management, investment and development companies in the nation operating a variety of large, full-service hotels and extended stay and select-service properties. Sage Hospitality's comprehensive management portfolio includes major international brands for Marriott, Starwood, Hilton and IHG as well as the independent boutique hotels. Sage Hospitality has further differentiated with the creation of the Sage Restaurant Group, which has created and is managing over nine unique restaurant concepts including the acclaimed Mercat a la Planxa restaurant in Chicago. For more information, please visit www.sagehospitality.com. About LAND studio LAND studio is a nonprofit organization with a mission to create places and connect people through public art, sustainable building and design, collaborative planning, and dynamic programming. The name LAND studio is an acronym that describes the tools we use to achieve our mission and reinforces our commitment to being a collaborative participant in the building of a healthy city. We are dedicated to greening our LANDSCAPE, inspiring the city’s people with public ART, uniting NEIGHBORHOODS, and supporting sustainable building and DEVELOPMENT. Learn more at www.LAND-studio.org. ### "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 17, 201311 yr Photos from last Tuesday taken from the top floor of the Penton Media Building parking garage.
September 20, 201311 yr Hotel demand thriving in three secondary U.S. markets "......And visitors are responding in kind. Cleveland's revenue per available room (RevPAR) for the first seven months of the year jumped 12% from a year earlier, marking the largest jump of any city in the U.S. central region and reflecting room and occupancy rates that advanced 6% and 5%, respectively, according to the research firm STR. And while occupancy through July stood at just less than 62%, room rates during the previous two years had advanced 11%, to about $94 a night. Hoteliers are poised to respond by adding to Cleveland's stock of about 21,000 rooms. Starwood Hotels & Resorts' 150-room Aloft Cleveland Downtown opened in June, while the hotelier will open a 484-room Westin in the city next year. There's also a 650-room convention-center hotel in the works for 2016, though no brand or management company has been chosen....." http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Hotel-News/Hotel-demand-thriving-in-three-secondary-US-markets/ [cross-posted in Cleveland Economic News and in Cleveland Hotel News]
September 20, 201311 yr Author ^ could the embassy suites closing play a major factor in those numbers?
September 23, 201311 yr Hotel rooms booked up this week. http://www.19actionnews.com/story/23506724/business-is-booming-for-downtown-cleveland-hotels-and-convention-center
September 23, 201311 yr Kind of discouraged that the only hotel with free rooms (according to the story) is the new Aloft.
September 24, 201311 yr Kind of discouraged that the only hotel with free rooms (according to the story) is the new Aloft. I would chalk that one up to its newness. I wouldn't read too much else into it. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
September 24, 201311 yr Kind of discouraged that the only hotel with free rooms (according to the story) is the new Aloft. I only found the following hotels available for a check in Friday - Sunday (9/26-9/28) $279 InterContinental Cleveland $375 Renaissance Cleveland Hotel $249 Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center $187 Radisson Hotel Cleveland-Gateway $179 DoubleTree by Hilton Cleveland Downtown $253 InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland $170 Hampton Inn Cleveland-Downtown $159 Residence Inn Cleveland Downtown $74 University Hotel & Suites $199 Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland Downtown $155 Comfort Inn Downtown Just flat out lazy reporting.
September 24, 201311 yr Kind of discouraged that the only hotel with free rooms (according to the story) is the new Aloft. I only found the following hotels available for a check in Friday - Sunday (9/26-9/28) $279 InterContinental Cleveland $375 Renaissance Cleveland Hotel $249 Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center $187 Radisson Hotel Cleveland-Gateway $17 DoubleTree by Hilton Cleveland Downtown $253 InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland $170 Hampton Inn Cleveland-Downtown $159 Residence Inn Cleveland Downtown $74 University Hotel & Suites $199 Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland Downtown $155 Comfort Inn Downtown Just flat out lazy reporting. Wow shameful on 19 Action News' part.
September 24, 201311 yr Kind of discouraged that the only hotel with free rooms (according to the story) is the new Aloft. I only found the following hotels available for a check in Friday - Sunday (9/26-9/28) $279 InterContinental Cleveland $375 Renaissance Cleveland Hotel $249 Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center $187 Radisson Hotel Cleveland-Gateway $17 DoubleTree by Hilton Cleveland Downtown $253 InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland $170 Hampton Inn Cleveland-Downtown $159 Residence Inn Cleveland Downtown $74 University Hotel & Suites $199 Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland Downtown $155 Comfort Inn Downtown Just flat out lazy reporting. Wow shameful on 19 Action News' part. With the Rennaissance at $375 and the Comfort Inn at $155, it must have been close to a sell out. Don't forget that hotels will oversell just like the airlines.
September 24, 201311 yr Kind of discouraged that the only hotel with free rooms (according to the story) is the new Aloft. I only found the following hotels available for a check in Friday - Sunday (9/26-9/28) $279 InterContinental Cleveland $375 Renaissance Cleveland Hotel $249 Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center $187 Radisson Hotel Cleveland-Gateway $17 DoubleTree by Hilton Cleveland Downtown $253 InterContinental Suites Hotel Cleveland $170 Hampton Inn Cleveland-Downtown $159 Residence Inn Cleveland Downtown $74 University Hotel & Suites $199 Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland Downtown $155 Comfort Inn Downtown Just flat out lazy reporting. Wow shameful on 19 Action News' part. With the Rennaissance at $375 and the Comfort Inn at $155, it must have been close to a sell out. Don't forget that hotels will oversell just like the airlines. That is true also, well as long as the Cleveland hotels continue to be successful close to the rate they are going now (obviously they won't always all be close to sold out) then im ecstatic.
September 24, 201311 yr Bingo! Overselling is a night auditor's worse scenario. I recall many of nights seeing the poor lady like she was facing a firing squad muttering 'we're at minus eight.' Meaning 8 more sold rooms than actual rooms.
September 24, 201311 yr Bingo! Overselling is a night auditor's worse scenario. I recall many of nights seeing the poor lady like she was facing a firing squad muttering 'we're at minus eight.' Meaning 8 more sold rooms than actual rooms. What's even worse is trying to find a room when the entire area IS sold out. That happened to me many a time down in St. Augustine.
October 3, 201311 yr The Aloft has come online. Coming online in the next 2 1/2 years is a Westin, Kimpton, Convention Center Hotel, Drury, Marriott Edition & a LeMeridian. THe CAC Building conversion is in the planning stages. Are we capable of filling all of these new hotels?
October 3, 201311 yr The Aloft has come online. Coming online in the next 2 1/2 years is a Westin, Kimpton, Convention Center Hotel, Drury, Marriott Edition & a LeMeridian. THe CAC Building conversion is in the planning stages. Are we capable of filling all of these new hotels? That's sounds like a lot, but consider that we still have fewer hotel rooms than similar sized cities like Pittsburgh, if I recall correctly. I remember seeing some numbers recently, but I can't find any details or references to substantiate my memory. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 3, 201311 yr Author We lost Embassey suites and the Crowne Plaza so that did remove a decent amount of rooms from the market for the new hotels to fill.
October 3, 201311 yr We lost Embassey suites and the Crowne Plaza so that did remove a decent amount of rooms from the market for the new hotels to fill. Well the Crowne Plaza is only getting rebranded so I wouldn't count that as a loss
October 3, 201311 yr ^Also we're down several hundred hotel rooms with the former Crown Plaza / new Westin's room out of the count as well as the permanent removal of the Embassy Suites. With the staggered opening of the new hotels I think the market will absorb well. Edit: Sorry I should have did a refresh before posting, I see this was already addressed.
October 3, 201311 yr If Le Meridien really does happen, I will be so pleasantly surprised. I was really sure that the new CC hotel was going to kill off some of these smaller proposals.
October 17, 201311 yr Does anybody know anything about this hotel? Is it considered a downtown hotel or a midtown hotel?http://www.hotelsone.com/cleveland-hotels-us/university-hotel-suites.html?as=g&aid=8024052638&dsti=122678&dstt=8&label=ggehoeu-bh122678&akw=university%20suites%20cleveland&asrc=Search&ast=&gclid=CNKUgcPwnLoCFWQ6QgodakAAJw
October 17, 201311 yr It's an old Travelodge, if that tells you anything. A little dodgy, but the owners have put a little into it...enough to make it passable in a pinch.
October 17, 201311 yr It's an old Travelodge, if that tells you anything. A little dodgy, but the owners have put a little into it...enough to make it passable in a pinch. It was actually built for Sheraton before it became a Travelodge.
October 17, 201311 yr Annnnnd here we go! :clap: :clap: :clap: Starwood Hotels to bring upscale Le Méridien brand to Cleveland By SCOTT SUTTELL 1:37 pm, October 17, 2013 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: HOT) said it's bringing an upscale Le Méridien brand hotel to Cleveland. The hotel developer said Le Méridien Cleveland is expected to open in January 2016 “following the completion of a highly anticipated, adaptive re-use project that will join together and transform two adjacent, historic buildings on Euclid Avenue.” http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20131017/FREE/131019841
October 17, 201311 yr This is wonderful news!!!! Soon we'll only have one bombed out building left on that stretch of Euclid, CAC, which hopefully gets converted to a Crowne Plaza or apartments. Finally, after 12 years of enduring it, my depressing daily commute from 12th to 9th, is nearing an end!!
October 17, 201311 yr Annnnnd here we go! :clap: :clap: :clap: Starwood Hotels to bring upscale Le Méridien brand to Cleveland By SCOTT SUTTELL 1:37 pm, October 17, 2013 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: HOT) said it's bringing an upscale Le Méridien brand hotel to Cleveland. The hotel developer said Le Méridien Cleveland is expected to open in January 2016 “following the completion of a highly anticipated, adaptive re-use project that will join together and transform two adjacent, historic buildings on Euclid Avenue.” http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20131017/FREE/131019841 "The hotel will have 206 guest rooms and suites. Starwood said Le Méridien Cleveland also will feature a full-service restaurant, signature bar, a 3,000-square-foot lounge, an indoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center and more than 12,000 feet of meeting and event space. The development also will include 10,500 square feet of ground-floor retail space and a 125-space parking garage." Finally extra rooms and luxury all at the same time. Euclid will definitely be hopping!! More residential should be announced by 2016 to help support more retail as well.
October 17, 201311 yr Nice. We need a proper hotel lounge in this town, hopefully between this and the Hilton we'll get a couple.
October 17, 201311 yr Nice. We need a proper hotel lounge in this town, hopefully between this and the Hilton we'll get a couple. To be fair, there is a dece one at the Wyndham in Playhouse Sq. and w xyz at Aloft. Also, had a few chardonnays in the Renaissance lounge after a bum's wedding reception. Not too shabby.
October 17, 201311 yr Pretty excited about the le meridian project. Definitely makes Cleveland and that stretch of Euclid more appealing.
October 17, 201311 yr Where did you see the rendering? On the net somewhere you could share with us? You got me very excited about it. I am glad it will alter the skyline. Did they have it in context with the Justice Center just to give an idea of the height?
October 17, 201311 yr Where did you see the rendering? On the net somewhere you could share with us? You got me very excited about it. I am glad it will alter the skyline. Did they have it in context with the Justice Center just to give an idea of the height? I'm sorry I meant to post in the convention center hotel thread, so I posted there instead. Let's take the convo there
October 17, 201311 yr This is wonderful news!!!! Soon we'll only have one bombed out building left on that stretch of Euclid, CAC, which hopefully gets converted to a Crowne Plaza or apartments. Finally, after 12 years of enduring it, my depressing daily commute from 12th to 9th, is nearing an end!! Been downtown and/or in Univ CIrcle for years and years, I know exactly what you mean. I wouldnt have had it any other way. DIfference is, so much is coming together to make it better...at a faster tempo
October 18, 201311 yr I thought the Le Meridien was going to go in the Schofield building after it's renovation? Am I missing something? Edit: never mind, Klimpton in Schofield.
October 18, 201311 yr I thought the Le Meridien was going to go in the Schofield building after it's renovation? Am I missing something? A Kimpton Hotel topped with luxury apartments will fill the Schofield Building.
November 7, 201311 yr When is the Westin Opening? Sometime in February? Cleveland to host Fed Cup at Public Auditorium. http://www.usta.com/Pro-Tennis/Fed-Cup/FedCup/
November 10, 201311 yr The Beachwood Aloft is quite a sight a night with its colored light bars and other lighting.
November 11, 201311 yr le meridien confirmation is fantastic news. lets try to get renders of that asap. the article says this is their third historic renovation. the others are in tampa and philly. anybody ever stay in either of those?
November 22, 201311 yr I had heard we had been contacted by the RNC and the DNC for potential interest in hosting a 2016 political convention. Someone pointed out that Charlotte had 31,000 rooms available in its county for the DNC, and that wasn't regarded as not enough. So now I am kind of curious, does anyone have a rough number of what our room capacity in the county might be by 2016?
November 22, 201311 yr According to this site (http://www.cvent.com/rfp/ohio-meeting-event-planning.aspx), we have: Hotels 190 Total Sleeping Rooms: 32,746 Not sure if the 32,746 number is for the county, the metro area or what. But assuming its relatively accurate: say, for Hilton, Drury, Le Meridien, Marriott Autograph, Kimpton? another 1,000 or so then we're around 34,000.
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