(I-Newswire) – The Chicago City Centre Hotel & Sports Club, the Magnificent Mile area property purchased as the Holiday Inn City Centre in January 2007 by an investment group led by The Chartres Lodging Group, LLC, has begun a $21 million, hotelwide renovation that will ultimately transform it into the Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile this summer. The announcement was made by Phil Tufano, Executive Vice President and partner of Kokua Hospitality, LLC, an independent management affiliate of Chartres Lodging that is managing nearly 1,400 rooms in central Chicago for the San Francisco lodging investment firm.
“We’re proud to be helping The Chartres Lodging Group strengthen its presence in the Chicago market – in this case, by updating a high-profile, East Ohio Street hotel with the coveted Doubletree ( http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/index.do ) brand and its standard of excellence,” explained Tufano. “Chartres benefits with an expanded renovated room inventory in the central Chicago visitor district, while Doubletree is able to present its loyal customers with a fantastic Chicago city center hotel location. But the real winner may be Chicago and the traveling public who will have yet another attractive reason to stay in the Magnificent Mile area.”
The Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile ( http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/CHIMMDT-Doubletree-Hotel-Chicago-Magnificent-Mile-Illinois/index.do ) will feature 500 redesigned guestrooms; 17,000 square feet of updated meeting and event space; a refreshed lobby and public spaces; a new signature, three-meal restaurant; an updated outdoor pool and view deck; and a street-facing Einstein’s Bagels store. Renovation of the guestrooms has been completed, with the new lobby and public spaces to be unveiled by early summer, and the new restaurant to open in the fall. The remodel will bring a distinctively urban residential feel to the Chicago hotel ( http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/CHIMMDT-Doubletree-Hotel-Chicago-Magnificent-Mile-Illinois/index.do ) property in keeping with its Streeterville neighborhood equidistant to the Magnificent Mile, Navy Pier, Millennium Park and McCormick Place.
“Doubletree has made a renewed commitment to grow its collection of upscale, full-service hotels in key city center locations around the world. We are delighted to work with The Chartres Lodging Group and Kokua Hospitality to return to one of the most dynamic downtown locations in North America and welcome business and leisure travelers alike with what will become a great new Doubletree offering,” commented Dave Horton, Senior Vice President – Brand Management for Doubletree Hotels ( http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/index.do ). “This newest hotel agreement in downtown Chicago reinforces our pride in Doubletree being recognized by hotel owners and developers as a dynamic, credible and lucrative hotel brand for hoteliers around the world.”
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