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.
The new hotel planned for Yorkville will be a Holiday Inn Express and Suites Hotel, according to city economic development officials. Read the Kendall County Now story here
Westgate is about to get more hotel rooms as Starwood Hotels and Resorts announced July 26 it has agreed to build a four-story, 100-room Aloft Hotel on the corner of 93rd and Glendale avenues. Read The Glendale Star story here
Roswell leaders gave the green light for a developer to construct a boutique hotel in the heart of the city. Read the Patch/Roswell story here
Walmart will expand its online grocery pickup service to 26 more stores in California. The service is currently available at more than 800 stores nationwide, with 36 stores in California already offering the service. Read The Orange County Register story here
The design of a hotel that spurred confusion and conversation over zoning districts received the green light from the Historic Review Board. Read the Savannah Morning News
Diners in Pittsburgh will soon have a new farm-to-table surf and turf option when “or, The Whale” – a Moby Dick-themed restaurant – opens its doors early next month. Meat and produce will be sourced from local farms and seafood will be sustainably sourced. Read
Belk will invest $40 million to open new stores and complete remodels at existing locations, the company said. Through the investment, Belk will open three new stores by the end of next year and will remodel 12 stores. Read the Commercial Property Executive story here
A record 4,730 guestrooms opened in California in the first six months of 2017, obliterating the prior record of 2,502 set in 2008. The jump in rooms over the same period as last year was 65%, reported the Atlas Hospitality Group. Read the Travel Weekly story
Wyndham has announced plans to separate its hotel and time-share businesses into two publicly traded companies. They’re temporarily called Wyndham Hotel Group and Wyndham Vacation Ownership. Read the Financial Times story here
China’s Alibaba Group began testing a cashier-less convenience store dubbed Tao Cafe on July 8, with facial recognition technology that tracks a shopper’s purchases and tallies up a bill when the person exits. Amazon unveiled its Amazon Go store concept last year, and other retailers
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