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Please post details about known new hotels or news of any disposals leaving the SPG portfolio of brands in this sticky.

Also feel free to hold discussions about them within this thread.

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Starwood is launching a "green hotel brand" called Element, with the first property opening in July in Lexington, Mass., and 20 more hotels scheduled to open in the next year.

The hotels are built with technology that saves water and cuts electric use, including heat-reflecting roofing materials, energy-efficient appliances and 16-foot windows to allow natural light into common areas. Laundry bags will be reusable, hybrid cars will get preferred parking, and garbage cans in the rooms will make it easy for guests to recycle.

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lWith four-digit inflation and violent Maoist guerrillas, Peru for many years was hardly the place for a seaweed wrap in a swank hotel.

But nowadays, relative peace and a booming economy draw boutique travellers to the Andean terrain and ancient ruins that were previously the domain of brave, budget-conscious backpackers.

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Yet as free-market President Alan Garcia speeds the development of Peru's high-end tourism sector, he is sparking a standoff with local residents who say they won't benefit from the boom. Earlier this year, protesters shut Cuzco's airport and blocked the only rail line to Machu Picchu to make their point.

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Strong economic growth is forecast to continue in Peru this year, and as many as 200,000 high-end tourists are expected, according to industry officials.

Starwood Hotels, which runs the Sheraton, Westin and other chains, plans three luxury hotels over the next three years, including a 192-room hotel in Cuzco. Hilton also has a plot there.

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The Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, part of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, will be one of the first components of the new Promenade Place mixed-use development retail project.

Galo Properties is developing Promenade Place on the far North Side in the Interstate 10-Loop 1604 corridor.

Four Points has been designed to compete with the Courtyard by Marriott and Hilton Garden Inn style of hotels. This will be the first Four Points by Sheraton Hotel built in San Antonio.

The six-story hotel will be about 75,000 square feet and feature 130 rooms.

There will be a full-service kitchen offering hot breakfasts and limited lunch and dinner options. There also will be a full bar and lounge with a two-sided fireplace.

In addition to free wireless Internet, there will be a conference/meeting room and a fitness center. The cost for a stay will run between $125 and $140 per night.

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Address: 6809 N. Loop 1604 West
Owner/developer: Galo Properties, http://galoproperties.com
Construction begins: April
Expected completion: February
Builder: TG Construction Inc., www.tgconst.com
Architect: Ponder & Ponder Architects, www.ponder2.com

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BIRMINGHAM city centre's first planned five star hotel is "lowering its expectations" after getting the go-ahead to cram in more bedrooms.

The new 23-storey Starwood hotel, at Snow Hill, will now have 198 rooms after developers successfully applied to lower the ceilings by ten inches to squeeze in 28 extra bedrooms.

Architects have been working overtime to ensure the outside of the hotel looks the same despite the internal rearrangement.

They settled on increasing the height to 261m and reducing the ceiling heights to 9ft 10ins.

The Snow Hill landmark hotel will be the American chain's first hotel in England and its board members demanded the extra rooms.

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The hotel is part of the £500 million regeneration of Snow Hill and will be next to one of 's tallest buildings, a 43-storey residential tower which will be opposite St Chad's Cathedral.

As part of the deal developers have agreed to pay £1.5 million to build a public arts wall in the area which councillors hope will become a major attraction.

And the planning committee also gave permission for two more hotels to be built just outside the city centre near the Aston Science Park.

The Marriott Group got permission to build a 195 bedroom hotel in Holt Street and the Intercontinental Hotel Group can now build an eight-storey 130 bedroom hotel in Love Lane.

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As many as 25 hotels with almost 4,000 rooms will open in St Petersburg by 2010. As was announced at a meeting of the city administration, nine hotels with 1,350 rooms will open already this year, and another 16 hotels with 2,581 rooms next year.

St Petersburg is currently carrying out 172 hotel projects for over 15,000 rooms. New hotels will bear the brands of Le Meriden, Sheraton and W (all by Starwood), Four Seasons, Sokos, Holiday Inn and Crown Plaza (the latter two by Intercontinental), Courtyard by Marriott, Domina Hotels & Resorts and Park Plaza.

This year, the city administration intends to investment about RUR97mn ($4.15mn, or €2.61mn) to develop St Petersburg’s tourist potential. The money will be used to represent the city at international tourism exhibitions, to create comfortable information environment for potential tourists, to publish brochures and advertise the city abroad.

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., a Standard & Poor's 500 corporation operating 900 hotels in 95 countries, signed with the Yitian Group on 10 March 2008 as strategic partners to bring the first Westin Hotel to Shenzhen.

The new Shenzhen Yitian Westin Hotel with a platinum five-star grade, will be based at the Yitian Holiday Plaza adjacent to Shennan Avenue. Providing 360 rooms and suites and planned to be opened at the end of 2008, it will join the more than 150 Westin hotels in 31 countries and regions in the world to provide luxury hospitality services and experience to distinguished guests.

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Caisse des Mines, the French miners' fund, which is active in the Paris property market, is planning to sell the premises of the Prince de Galles hotel, a luxury four-star establishment.

The hotel is run by Starwood Hotels & Resorts. If the transaction proceeds as planned, it will be sold by the autumn. Caisse des Mines also plans to sell three other small hotels, including one three-star establishment.

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) and O&S Holdings, LLC are pleased to announce the highly anticipated opening of The Westin Huntsville on Saturday, April 12, 2008.

The 11-story hotel features 210 beautifully appointed guest rooms and 74 residential condominiums on the top six floors. Guests are invited to refresh and rejuvenate at this elegant new property with the help of the Westin brand’s signature services and amenities.

Overlooking a scenic, ten-acre lake, The Westin Huntsville is the newest addition to the Bridge Street Town Centre, a premier mixed-use lifestyle center within Huntsville's Cummings Research Park, the hub of North Alabama’s space and defense industry and the second largest technology park in the United States.

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Four Points by Sheraton will open four new hotels in China this year.

These will be Four Points by Sheraton Changshu; Four Points by Sheraton Hangzhou, Binjiang; Four Points by Sheraton Beijing, Haidian and Four Points by Sheraton Guangzhou, Dongpu.

Miguel Ko, president of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Asia Pacific, said, ‘(...)The strong demand for moderately priced lodging coupled with the increase in domestic travel in many Asian markets is helping to propel the brand’s growth to a level that is expected to rival that of Starwood’s luxury and upper upscale brands.’

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Aloft Jacksonville Airport is to debut in 2009 and is to be developed by The Summit Group, Inc.

KENNECTED

Not to ruffle any feathers or but aren't there already multiple threads in the FAQ section about new hotels opening?

such as
Compiled list of future W, aloft and element Starwood properties

Oxon Flyer

Really ?

There's always the risk that clippings from uninformed local newspapers will contain nonsense like this. What they actually meant to say is that the new Birmingham property will be a Westin, which indeed will be the first Westin in England.

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Transformation in Detroit continues as the once storied Book Cadillac hotel comes to life as the new Westin Book Cadillac Detroit on October 1, 2008. As construction crews ready this grand dame of hospitality, preparations are underway for a two-day celebration and grand opening on October 24 and 25. The event will mark the next chapter of the historic icon commemorating the completion of the nearly $200 million restoration of what was the tallest hotel in the world when it opened in 1924.

The Ferchill Group, a Cleveland-based development company, is resurrecting the Book Cadillac to its former glory with a 455-room Westin hotel and more than 60 luxury residences situated on the top floors – more than 90 percent of the residences are sold.

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While Dallas city officials tussle over plans to build a convention center hotel, two developers have quietly started work on one.

Ted and Larry Hamilton's Aloft hotel project on Young Street is just south of the Dallas Convention Center.

"We are the closest hotel to the front door," said Ted Hamilton, who plans to have the boutique hotel open in 16 months.

Last week, crews from Andres Construction began work to turn an 83-year-old building at 1033 Young St. into a luxury hotel.

The project will be Starwood Hotels & Resorts' first Aloft hotel in Dallas.

Built as a warehouse for the Santa Fe Railway, the eight-story brick building has been vacant for more than a decade. Hamilton Properties is converting the 160,000-square-foot structure into a 193-room hotel.

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"The Starwood people are describing this as an Aloft on steroids," said Larry Hamilton. "It will cost $34 million."