Dolce Adds Utah Resort & Spa To Portfolio
By Karyn Strauss, Associate Editor -- HOTELS Magazine, 4/1/2005
Dolce Adds Utah Resort & Spa
To Portfolio
MIDWAY,
UTAH Dolce
International has announced that it will manage the
Zermatt Resort & Spa in
Midway, Utah, currently under construction and scheduled
to open in the first quarter of 2006.
Designed to resemble an alpine village, Zermatt will feature Hotel der Baer, a four-story Swiss chalet with 226 guestrooms, and the Chateau Hotel Villas with 126 condominiums, all with fireplaces and jetted tubs. Other amenities will include the Mountain Rose, a 17,000-sq. ft. (1,579-sq. m) European spa, and The Alps, a newly designed nine-hole golf course. The resort’s privately owned villas and townhouses also will be managed by Dolce.
For conferences, the Matterhorn Conference Center will offer more than 64,000 sq. ft. (5,946 sq. m) of indoor and outdoor meeting space, including 23 meeting rooms, five hospitality suites and a separate enclosed 13,000-sq. ft. (1,208-sq. m) multi-use pavilion.
Zermatt Resort & Spa will offer three restaurants: Schneitter’s, featuring Swiss and French cuisine with outdoor seating; Matty’s Sport Grill and Lounge, a casual bistro serving pizza and European specialties; and the Mountain Rose, a health café and juice bar.
In addition to the spa and golf, recreational facilities will include indoor and outdoor swimming, tennis, basketball, retail shopping and a kids club. Natural geothermal hot springs that can be used in the winter for scuba diving or just relaxing are another highlight.
Raffles International
Expands Into Estonia
TALLINN, ESTONIA Raffles Holdings Limited, the parent
of Raffles International, has sealed an agreement with
Tornimäe
Hotel Ltd. to operate a new hotel development in Tallinn,
Estonia. This is the second hotel contract in Eastern
Europe for Raffles International, after agreeing to manage a hotel in
Moscow last year.
Targeted for opening in early 2007, the 239-room, 28-story Swissôtel Tallinn, Estonia is located in an area of the capital known as the “Wall Street of Tallinn.” The hotel will be part of a mixed-use complex with apartments and shopping centers, and upon completion will be Tallinn’s tallest building.
Facilities will include 2,500 sq. m (26,910 sq. ft.) of conference and meeting space, food and beverage outlets, three executive floors and a health club.
Ripley Entertainment
Building Resort In Niagara Falls
NIAGARA
FALLS, CANADA The Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls, Canada,
part of a US$200 million family entertainment destination being created
by Ripley Entertainment, is scheduled to open in the spring of 2006.
Situated on a 25-acre (10-ha.) site that also will include Ripley’s
Aquarium of Canada (set for a 2007 opening), the four-story resort will
offer 406 family-sized suites.
The complex will feature a 94,000-sq. ft. (8,733-sq. m) indoor entertainment area with one of North America’s largest waterparks; a casual, family-themed restaurant; an Aveda concept spa; 6,500 sq. ft. (604 sq. m) of meeting space; a 7,000-sq. ft. (650 sq. m) arcade; a 5,000-sq. ft. (465-sq. m) gift emporium; a confectionary café and a fitness center.
Attractions in the waterpark will include a large wave pool, 10 waterslides, four pools, family and adult whirlpools and an interactive treehouse waterfort. More than a million gallons (4 million liters) of water will be filtered through the park each hour.
New Westin To
Rise On Chicago’s North Shore
WHEELING, ILLINOIS Ground was broken recently on the first
major luxury hotel to be built in Chicago’s North Shore suburbs
in almost 20 years.
The Westin North Shore, housed in an 18-story, 225-ft. (69-m) stone tower, will rise on a 20-acre (8-ha) site in the village of Wheeling. The hotel will be part of a 410,000-sq. ft. (38,090-sq. m) complex that also will include retail and restaurant space, a freestanding bank, and parking for 900 vehicles.
The 350,000-sq. ft. (32,516-sq. m) hotel will have 441 rooms, 44,000 sq. ft. (4,088 sq. m) of conference and banquet space, and a major restaurant with an 11,000-sq. ft. (1,022-sq. m) main dining room and a 5,000-sq. ft. (465-sq. m) banquet room. The hotel will feature both wired and wireless high-speed Internet access throughout and flat-panel televisions in all guestrooms.
The Westin North Shore is scheduled to open in early 2007. The total cost of the development is estimated at US$114 million, with about US$100 million devoted to the hotel.
Warwick International
Launches Major Fiji Resort Expansion
FIJI Warwick International Hotels is investing US$7 million
to expand its Naviti Resort on the South Pacific island
of Fiji. The company will add 84 rooms and 16 villas,
as well as a new swimming pool complex. Completion of the project
is expected at the end of this year.
The expansion will give the resort a total of 240 air-conditioned rooms and villas. Other amenities at the resort include a nine-hole, par three golf course and floodlit tennis courts.
The Naviti Resort expansion is part of an improvement and renovation program undertaken by Warwick over the last few years. The program includes sites in Paris, Brussels, Geneva, New York, Denver and San Francisco.
Starwood
Vacation Ownership To Expand Florida Villages
ORLANDO, FLORIDA Starwood Vacation
Ownership is continuing expansion of its new flagship
resort, Sheraton Vistana Villages, in the heart of the Orlando, Florida’s theme
park attractions.
The expansion will increase the number of units at the property to 510, including 200 new villas, as well as a new swimming pool complex, a new recreation building with a second fitness center, a game room and arcade, and an activities desk with sports, pool games and equipment.
The current phase of expansion is expected to be complete in the third quarter of 2006. When finished, construction will begin on the next phase. Upon total completion, Sheraton Vistana Villages will have 1,415 units.
Sheraton Vistana Villages opened in 2000 as the first newly built Starwood Vacation Ownership property after the 1999 purchase of Vistana Inc. by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.
Historic
Jail In Boston To Become Luxury Hotel
BOSTON Developer Richard L. Friedman and designers
Cambridge Seven Associates Inc. have partnered with Suffolk
Construction Co. Inc. on the Charles Street Jail Hotel
project in Boston. The project is expected to be complete
in early 2007.
The US$100 million project will include the renovation of the 154-year-old jail as well as construction of a 16-story hotel building adjacent to it, where most of the 308 guestrooms will be located.
The reconstructed jail will include three wings and a central rotunda that will constitute the hotel lobby. A restaurant, complete with jail theme, and several unique guestrooms also will be added. Window bars and select cellblocks will remain in tact to meet historical preservation requirements while also ensuring that the hotel maintains its personality and historic appeal.
The hotel will be operated by MTM Management LLC of Seattle, which runs about 10 other hotels, including The Madison in Washington, D.C.
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