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around the world development outlook
Hilton's lifestyle brand Tempo, which debuted
in Times Square in 2023, is sprouting more
locations in Louisville, Kentucky and Nashville,
just as its Motto flag, which also launched in New
York, is now setting its sights on artsy Bentonville,
Arkansas. The opening will build on its " global
growth story and deliver a view of what this microlifestyle
brand experience will be like outside of
New York City, " says Larry Traxler, Hilton's senior
vice president of global design.
U.S. Secondary Markets
Evidenced by these brands' expansions,
development in secondary cities has also
increased. Davidson will add the 229-room
Margaritaville Hotel Kansas City (located in Kansas)
to its portfolio next spring as part of a reported
$800-plus million masterplan, while Hyatt
looks ahead to the 150-room Hyatt House Raleigh
Downtown/Seaboard Station, featuring a split-level
lobby from local firm Cline Design Associates.
LE reports that 60 hotels are in the
construction pipeline in Detroit totalling 7,690
rooms as of Q4 2023, including Marriott's
EDITION brand, which is expected to arrive
in 2025. Recent openings in the Rust Belt city
include the Godfrey, a 227-room hotel that's part
of Hilton's Curio Collection with interiors by the
Gettys Group; and an outpost of Method Co.'s
ROOST apartment hotel concept that's part of the
historic Book Tower, which recently underwent
a $400 million restoration thanks to local
developer Bedrock.
The 208-key InterContinental Bellevue at the
Avenue in Washington, designed by the Santa
Monica, California office of HBA in a mixed-use
development, marks the first Pacific Northwest
location of InterContinental Hotels & Resorts.
Equally significant is the Regent Santa Monica
Beach in Los Angeles, a reintroduction of the
Regent Hotels & Resorts brands to the U.S.
In Savannah, Georgia, real estate company
Left Lane recently debuted the 149-key Hotel
Bardo. The city, says managing partner Jon Kully,
was an attractive choice as " this progressive, cool,
artsy, literary place with perfect master planning
and architecture and wonderful people. " He adds
that Left Lane was conceived as a global brand,
but it will next bring the concept to Pittsburgh
and Providence, Rhode Island. " We are trying
to touch all these magical places and, for the time
being, stay away from gateway markets. "
Latin America + the Caribbean
With highly anticipated openings like the Riviera
Maya EDITION at Kanai, Mexico is often the focus
in Latin America, but other destinations are
also growing. According to Statista, revenue in
Honduras' hotel market is projected to reach $136.7
million in 2024 and continue to grow at a rate of
5.8 percent over the next four years, hitting $171.3
million by 2028. One burgeoning travel destination,
about 35 miles off the mainland, is Roatán (one of
the three Bay Islands), which is seeing growing
hotel activity. The island-only 40 miles long and
less than five miles wide-will soon welcome the
164-room Margaritaville Island Reserve Resort Roatán,
an all-inclusive property slated for a 2025 launch
as a collaboration between Margaritaville and
Karisma Hotel & Resorts.
Margaritaville will join the recently opened
Kimpton Grand Roatán, situated on the island's West
Bay Beach along the world's second largest barrier
reef. Caribbean architecture firm Lane Pettigrew
Associates was tapped alongside Manhattan Beach,
The greenery-bedecked restaurant of the forthcoming
AvroKO-designed Six Senses London, shown in a rendering
Timber wraps the Kitchen restaurant at the Riviera
Maya EDITION at Kanai in Mexico, envisioned by Ian
Schrager, Rockwell Group, and Edmonds International
The soaring lobby of the Imaad Rahmounidesigned
Park Hyatt Marrakech in Morocco
Bold colors and patterns converge at Warren
Street Bar & Restaurant in the Kit Kempcrafted
Warren Street Hotel in New York
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