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Lu F. Sacharski, director of project management for Chatham Lodging Trust, gives us an inside look at the company’s new build strategy.
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The April 2013 STR Pipeline Report indicates a 9.2 percent increase in the number of hotel rooms in the total active development pipeline in the United States, according to TravelPulse. The U.S. luxury segment showed the largest growth in rooms in the active pipeline, at 60.5 percent.
Four Points by Sheraton will have more than 120 locations in North America this year, and the brand will have a global pipeline of about 200 hotels by 2014, according to TravelPulse. The brand accounted for more than 25 percent of Starwood Hotels & Resorts‘ openings last year and will sign more deals this year than ever recorded.
Kroger isn’t sitting idly by while rival Wal-Mart moves further into the grocery business, according to The Blade. Kroger has built 78 Marketplace stores since launching the first in 2004. In addition to groceries, the 125,000-square-foot stores offer expanded general merchandise, and they have increasingly added new features from gourmet coffee shops to jewelry stores.
About 200 of the new stores New Orleans-based Smoothie King plans to open during the next five years will be corporate units, a shift from the franchise model that will let the chain test new products and practices for success before requiring franchisees to make changes, according to SmartBrief/SmartBlog.
Retail sales rose 0.1 percent in April, beating analysts’ forecasts for a 0.3 percent decline, as stronger sales of building materials, cars and clothing helped offset lower gas prices, according to a Reuters’ story. Clothing stores booked a 1.2 percent increase, their biggest monthly increase in more than a year, and sales rose in nine of 13 major categories.
August 8th – 11th, 2013 in Washington, D.C.at the Monaco Hotel
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Sept 26-29, 2013 Commercial Retreat at The Hotel Palomar in Phoenix
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2014 Summit will be held at The Grand Hyatt February 17th-19th in Tampa, FL
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Kevin Sorensen, construction & facilities manager, and Rick Connors, director of construction, show us how Famous Daves’ new casual dining, counter serve mix is ringing in the sales.
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