Shawmut Design and Construction has joined Draper and Wexford Science & Technology to break ground on the 111,000-square-foot Integrated Microelectronics Production & Advanced Chip Technology (IMPACT) Center in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Nashville’s fast growing hotel scene just added another player. The Drury Plaza Hotel Nashville Downtown opened the doors last week to a new 22-story, 389-guest room hotel. Read The Business Journals story here
Choice Hotels International Inc. and Reddy Hotels have broken ground on Cambria Hotel Orlando International Airport, a 106-key hotel in Orlando, Florida. The hotel is slated for completion by early 2021. Construction and design of the project are managed by Florida-based SMS Construction and MILES
This historic boutique hotel in uptown Charlotte is undergoing a multimillion-dollar facelift. The Dunhill Hotel is refreshing its 60 guest rooms and celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. It is located at 237 N. Tryon Street. Read The Business Journals story here
The Arlington, Texas, city council voted to continue its partnership with the MLB’s Texas Rangers, Loews Hotels & Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Loews Corp., and The Cordish Cos., and is moving forward with an $810 million expansion of Arlington’s Entertainment District. Read the
The Waldorf Astoria New York‘s long-delayed rebirth as a luxury hotel/high-end condo property is scheduled to take place in 2020. The official landmark sold for a historic $1.95 billion in 2014 to China’s Anbang Insurance Group. Read the Hotel News Now story here
Texas-based developer Hines and partners have secured air rights for a long-planned mixed-use tower atop Boston’s busy South Station. Suffolk Construction is the general contractor for the project, which will offer office and residential space, a hotel and a parking garage. Read The Business Journals
Hilton and Marriott are among the hotel companies that have used modular construction, a process in which sections of hotels are built in a factory, shipped to the site and stacked. Marriott offers franchisees cash incentives to use the method. Read the Yahoo story here
Virgin Hotels opened its third location, a 268-room property in Dallas’ Design district. Three Virgin Hotels have opened since Richard Branson launched the brand in 2010, and three more are expected to open in 2020. Read the Skift story here
New York-based Domio, a high-tech apartment-hotel brand, has completed a $100 million equity round of fund-raising. Founded in 2016, Domio operates in 12 US markets, courting families and groups with rooms five times larger than the average hotel space. Read the GlobeSt story here
Hotels are some of the most vulnerable places for data breaches. That much became obvious last year when Marriott International revealed that about 383 million of its guests had their information compromised because of a hacking of its reservations system. Read the Skift story here
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