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.
Checkers Drive-In plans to add 60 new double-drive-thru restaurants in New Jersey, where it currently operates 13 units. Checkers and its sibling chain, Rally’s, have upward of 800 locations around the country. Read the NJ Advance Media story here
The Best Western Green Bay Inn Conference Center is scheduled for a face-lift. The 145-room hotel at 780 Armed Forces Drive in Ashwaubenon plans to renovate its canopy, trade in its beige coat for a gray and wood-paneled one, and upgrade its landscaping and fences.
During the International Council of Shopping Centers‘ RECon convention, panelists discussed the value of pairing hotels with retail centers in mixed-use projects. Hotels benefit by providing their guests with more amenities, while retail centers gain foot traffic. Read the Forbes story here
Deal pace in the hotel sector was very robust for the first four months of this year, with transaction volumes 93% higher than the same period last year, surpassing 11.9 billion, according to preliminary figures from JLL. TRead the CoStar Group story here
Ground has broken on Grand Bohemian Hotel Charlotte, a 254-key hotel that will take shape in the bustling Uptown submarket of Charlotte, N.C. The Kessler Collection, the hotel developer and manager behind the Grand Bohemian brand, will deliver the luxury lodging property at a cost
The biggest of a bunch of planned boutique hotels in downtown Chattanooga appears back on track. The job of reworking the former Chattanooga Bank Building into a 159-room Aloft Hotel has gone out for bid. Read the Chattanooga Times Free Press story here
AccorHotels sees opportunity in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. Read the Hotel News Now story here
In September, the Fauchon food group says it will open its first hotel, in Paris, the start of what will be a 20-property portfolio. Read the Reuters story here
As time’s gone by, the place now known as the Valley Regency has evolved. Once it was called the Robin Hood Inn. In the 1990s it was re-invented as the Valley Regency, a banquet hall. Read the NorthJersey story here
Manhattan’s old Biltmore Hotel, where people once met each other “under the clock,” is being reconfigured as a tech incubator across from Grand Central Terminal — or at least that’s the ambition. The building, at 335 Madison Ave., will be a kind of Silicon Valley in
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