The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to renovate and expand the historic Hotel Alexandra at Massachusetts Avenue and Washington Street in South Boston into a 156-room, 13-floor hotel with ground-floor and roof-deck restaurants.
 
Developers Jas Bhogal and Thomas Calus won BPDA approval in March to completely gut what’s left of the interior of the historic 1876 structure, keep the facades and then drop a new 13-story building inside them and in the space vacated when the formerly historic Ivory Beane building was torn down before it could collapse.
 
The hotel will have no parking, but will have a valet service at the Washington Street entrance.
 
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A local hotel developer and operator are planning to build a seven-story Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati Ohio.
 
Brandicorp LLC and Lexington Management Corp. are under contract to purchase the former Pig & Whistle property at 2680 Madison Road. Brandicorp plans to develop a seven-story, 100-room hotel on the site.
 
Brandicorp is in the early stages of the project. Phoenix Architecture is the architect for the proposed hotel project.
 
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Albuquerque’s Hotel Blue, which was built in the 1960s and originally called Downtowner Motor Inn, will receive a $22 million renovation from Los Angeles-based ARRIVE Hotels & Restaurants. ARRIVE will operate the hotel upon completion and change the name to  ARRIVE Albuquerque, according to a release.
 
ARRIVE Hotels is in the process of gathering construction drawings and hopes to send out general contracting bids by the end of September with plans for the six-story ARRIVE Albuquerque will break ground by 2020 and be operational by 2021.
 
Renovation plans include 135 guest rooms, meeting spaces, a ground-level coffee shop and bar, a renovated pool and patio, landscaping and a food truck park.
 
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Developer Elliot Group plans to bring a four-star hotel brand to its Park Lane development in Liverpool which includes the historic Heaps Rice Mill.
 
Elliot is submitting a trio of planning applications to the city council for hotels at three separate locations in the city centre, including an amendment to its £100m Aura scheme on the edge of the Knowledge Quarter and changes to an existing hotel project in Norfolk Street.
 
Architects at Falconer Chester Hall are working on a new scheme that would see the building being converted to apartments that would be sold. 
 
Four other new blocks would also be included in the mixed-use scheme which could include a restaurant and a new public square and now Elliot has revealed a plan to make one of the blocks a 260-bed hotel.
 
Elliot is currently concluding negotiations with an international hotelier to bring a new four star brand to the city.
 
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The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Nevada will completely close in February 2020 for a major renovation and conversion project. The property will re-open in late 2020 as the Virgin Hotel & Casino. The total cost of the project will exceed $200 million.
 
The resort ownership group is J.C. Hospitality along with AEG Presents and Virgin Hotel Group. Rockwell Group is the project designer.
 
The property is located at: 455 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas Nevada and contains 1,271 guestrooms.
 
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Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants is expanding in the Caribbean. The hotel brand is planning to open a new boutique resort on Roatan off the Caribbean coast of Honduras. The new property will open in 2021.
 
The property, owned and developed by Vista Capital, will be the first internationally-branded hotel in Roatan, with 126 guest rooms including 43 suites and amenities like a rooftop sky bar with a glass-fronted pool; a large outdoor pool, a chef-driven restaurant; lounges and beach bars and more than 6,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting space, according to the company.
 
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A hotel proposed at the Lincoln Nebraska Innovation Campus will be a new brand for Lincoln. The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission on Wednesday voted unanimously in favor of a $47 million plan to bring a hotel and office building to the research park on the former state fairgrounds.
The six-story, 153-room hotel would be a Marriott Tribute property, which is an independent boutique hotel. Tetrad Property Group, the company developing the project, plan a University of Nebraska-branded hotel.
 
Plans are to build the $31 million hotel first. Construction would likely start early next year, with a target opening date of June 2021. In addition to the rooms, the hotel would have a full-service restaurant, coffee shop, gym and other amenities.
 
The proposed hotel could also serve as a learning space for some University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, as plans filed with the city call for 2,600 square feet on the first floor to include education space, a student lounge, conference room and faculty offices for the Hospitality, Tourism and Restaurant Management program. The proposed office building would be three stories and have 80,000 square feet of space. Its construction timeline is not set. It would cost nearly $16 million.
 
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On Aug. 6 the Harbor Area Planning Commission unanimously approved a request from 544 Pacific LLC to build a hotel with 80 guest rooms on the corner of South Pacific Avenue and 6th Street, adjacent to the Warner Grand Theatre.
 
The hotel is designed to have a restaurant on the ground floor and a rooftop bar. It will be seven stories tall and will have one level of underground parking. It will have a neon sign that says San Pedro.
 
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CAI Investments has secured a $86.5 million construction loan to develop a full service hotel in Tempe, Arizona. CAI will build a 290-room Westin hotel at a site within walking distance of Arizona State University. The 18-story building will include a rooftop pool, a full service restaurant and more than 10,000 square feet of meeting space.
 
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The Inn on Fifth & Club Level Suites located at 699 Fifth Ave South in downtown Naples Florida is closing for a major renovation is beginning on Sept. 3, with completion in October. Phil McCabe is the owner of the hotel.
 
The $5 million renovation will include all 119 guest rooms and a complete redo of the hotel’s rooftop pool deck and courtyard. The hotel’s 32 Club Level Suites, located directly across the avenue, will remain open.
 
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