Maine
The Westin Portland Harborview is set to open this month with 289 guest rooms. Located in the city’s arts district, the Westin will offer 20,000 square feet of function space and bay views from a rooftop lounge area. The hotel is less than four miles from Portland International Airport and within walking distance of attractions like the Portland Museum of Art and the Old Port district.
Massachusetts
Boston’s Hotel Commonwealth plans to add 94 guest rooms and 14,000 square feet of new event space to its existing 149 rooms and 30,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space. The expansion will include a new ballroom and an outdoor terrace that overlooks Fenway Park. The independent hotel in the Back Bay neighborhood also has a unique luxury baseball suite that opened in 2010.
New Jersey
The 427-room Hilton Meadowlands opened in East Rutherford. Just outside Manhattan, the hotel offers views of the New York City skyline combined with 30,000 square feet of meeting space, including a 4,100-square-foot IACC-certified conference center. The property was formerly a Sheraton and underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation and conversion. Meeting spaces will be updated in 2014.
New York
Radisson Hotel JFK Airport is now open adjacent to John F. Kennedy International Airport, with 385 guest rooms. Meeting spaces and boardrooms can host groups of up to 350.
Plans are developing to build a new, $80 million Holiday Inn hotel in Brooklyn, slated for completion by early 2015. InterContinental Hotels is working with 300 Schermerhorn Realty to develop the hotel; which will be part of Holiday Inn’s major brand relaunch. The 246-room hotel will have 3,000 square feet of meeting space, including a ballroom.
Following a multimillion-dollar renovation, the 107-room Marlton Hotel is now open in New York City. Built in 1900, the former Marlton House was used as a dormitory by Greenwich Village’s The New School for Design for many years, housing numerous famous artists. It was later used as a single residency occupancy hotel for transient lodgers. Now, the lavish rooms are adorned with wood floors, crown moldings and marble bathrooms. The two penthouse suites have terraces and there is a 100-seat restaurant on the ground floor.
When it opens in spring 2014, the 34-room Mirbeau Inn & Spa will bring a glimpse of the French countryside to Skaneateles, in the Finger lakes region of New York state. Modeled after a romantic French country manor house, the property is home to four four-bedroom private cottages and a spa. Mirbeau will be able to accommodate groups of up to 60 people for corporate retreats, private dinners and social events.
Pennsylvania
The 200-room Sheraton Pittsburgh Airport completed a $12 million renovation. The Sheraton offers 8,000 square feet of function space, including a 6,000-square-foot grand ballroom, and is located 10 minutes from Pittsburgh International Airport.
A hip Ace Hotel is slated to open in Pittsburgh in 2014, located in the city’s East End.
Virginia
Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles in Northern Virginia completed a renovation and modernized its technology. The project updated guest rooms, unveiled a new conference dining room and new restaurant, and debuted apps to simplify meeting scheduling and shorten check-in times. The Chantilly hotel offers 336 guest rooms and more than 40,000 square feet of function space.