Maryland
The Radisson Hotel at Cross Keys Baltimore renovated its lobby and all 147 guest rooms as part of the brand’s nationwide portfolio refresh. The hotel is located on 72 wooded acres in the Roland Park neighborhood.
New Jersey
The Princeton Marriott at Forrestal completed a three-month long, multimillion-dollar renovation that updated all of its guest rooms and suites. The 300-room hotel offers 35,000 square feet of meeting space.
New York
The 1,985-room New York Hilton Midtown is set to wrap-up its multimillion-dollar renovation by 2016 that will update guest rooms in addition to the 25,000-square-foot Grand Ballroom. Completion is scheduled for mid-2014.
The new, hip Ludlow Hotel will open on Manhattan’s Lower East Side this month, with 184 guest rooms and a unique, historic decor inspired by the neighborhood’s diverse past.
The boutique Hotel Hugo is expected to open this winter in Hudson Square, featuring 122 guest rooms and a rooftop cocktail lounge. A ground floor restaurant will serve handmade pasta and the private dining room will seat up to 24 guests. Hotel Hugo will also offer 500 square feet of meeting space.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute added a new dedicated meeting space with a street-level entrance that will open in June, as part of a large expansion. The IACC-certified, 3,000-square-foot conference center is on the first floor of the new Nicholas and Athena Karabots Pavilion. Event facilities will include flexible meeting spaces, breakout rooms, a dining room, business center, rain garden and new rooftop deck. A unique outdoor “shimmer wall” art installation is made of more than 10,000 iodized aluminum panels that can move in the breeze and mimic the wind and sky.
On the west side of Philadelphia’s City Hall, Dilworth Plaza is undergoing a $55 million renovation that will update the public park with six tree groves, performance spaces, and a unique programmable fountain that will trace the paths of local the trains traveling underground. The 120,000-square-foot plaza is scheduled to open in September.
Washington, D.C.
The Marriott Marquis Washington, D.C., opened in May, directly connected to the Washington Convention Center via an underground concourse. The Marriott conference hotel offers 1,175 guest rooms and more than 100,000 square feet of function space, including 54 breakout rooms.
The 153-room Capitol Hill Hotel completed a full guest room renovation, following a renovation of its public spaces and meeting rooms in 2012. The boutique hotel has 2,000 square feet of function space, including boardrooms, dining rooms and lounges that can be booked by the hour. for last-minute, shorter meetings.