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According to Marriott s website, the brand was launched in Europe in 2011 as a joint venture with Spanish hotelier Antonio Catalan. The first AC Hotel in the U.S. will open this fall in New Orleans, followed by locations in Kansas City, Mo., and Miami in early 2015.
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cruise lines going to panama canal Charlotte hospitality industry officials said Wednesday that having cruise lines going to panama canal another hotel in uptown could help the city attract larger conventions. Sid Smith, executive cruise lines going to panama canal director of the Charlotte Area Hotel Association, said Charlotte is sometimes not considered for certain meetings that require more rooms.
A 25-story hotel and apartment building to be built next to the Metropolitan development on South Kings Drive. Levine Properties won approval for a rezoning last month clearing the way for the project.
The EpiCentre hotel will be built near the Lynx light-rail line, atop a building where plans for a condo tower were scrapped in the economic downturn. Today, cruise lines going to panama canal columns and other sections of unfinished construction sit where the hotel will go, on top of Gold s Gym.
The Charlotte location will be among the first AC Hotels to be built in the U.S., according to a release Wednesday. AC Hotels, with locations across Europe, plans to open its first U.S. hotel in New Orleans this year. In the release, AC Hotels are described as catering cruise lines going to panama canal to cosmopolitan, urban travelers in a stylish, contemporary and sophisticated cruise lines going to panama canal setting.
According to project officials, McKibbon, Vision Ventures and Mount Vernon Asset Management will own the hotel. McKibbon owns and operates more than 80 hotels in 13 states, including Residence Inn by Marriott SouthPark as well as Homewood cruise lines going to panama canal Suites and Hampton Inn by Hilton in Charlotte s University cruise lines going to panama canal City area.
Smith, of the Charlotte Area Hotel Association, said there are about 33,000 hotel rooms in the Charlotte metro area, with roughly 4,000 of those in Center City. More rooms are needed to house bigger cruise lines going to panama canal events, he said.
As an extreme example, let s say there is a convention that wants 10,000 (rooms) upon any given one night. We cannot accommodate that in the Center cruise lines going to panama canal City. Now if that meeting and convention is willing and amenable to their attendees being spread out throughout the entire Charlotte region ... we can accommodate them.
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