The Hayden Flour Mill redevelopment project in Tempe has a new financial backer and is getting closer to starting construction. Tempe is leasing out the land to a development group made up of Aparium Hotel Group, Baum Revision and BlueRoad...
The Detroit Foundation Hotel, in the former Detroit Fire Department headquarters across the street from Cobo Center, is set to open in May. The modern design, 100-room hotel is part of a bigger bet by hoteliers to redevelop downtown buildings in recent...
Some 13 years ago, when Mario Tricoci first contemplated opening the Elysian Hotel in Chicago, the ultra-luxury market was dominated by fabled names like Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, Peninsula, and Mandarin Oriental. While the property he desired to create would...
Thomas Lents, who earned two Michelin stars for the Trump Tower fine-dining restaurant Sixteen in Chicago, is leaving this week to run the food program for a new hotel in downtown Detroit. The move to Detroit’s forthcoming Foundation Hotel marks a...
JUNE 7, 2016 This story appears in the June 2016 issue of Startups. Subscribe » Six years ago, Kevin Robinson and Mario Tricoci both had kids playing for traveling sports teams. That meant the Chicago-based hoteliers made regular visits...