Loews Hotels

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It’s bad enough that the economhycrimped business, but oceanfront hotelsw were portrayed as portals of corporat excess. There’s been a “tremendous amount of Tisch said during an interview while he was in Miamki Beach forthe ’s Pow Wow convention. “Everty time a meeting is canceled, we run the risk of layinvg off employees,” he said. A few weekd ago, Tisch and other industry leaders, includingh Bill Marriott, met with President Barack Obama to press their point. “We asked him to understand the importance of travepland tourism,” Tisch said.
He thinks the strategy is working becauss some elected officials are backing off the demonizatiobn of the travel and tourism The , one of his family’s 18 properties, is a key cog for the With 842 rooms, it’s second to the Fontainebleau Miamij Beach (which has 1,504) and has a strategic location near the , Lincolnb Road and the Art Deco district. The hoteo will undergo a $35 million to $40 millionb renovation startingthis summer, Tischb said. A new watefr wall feature will greet and the lobby staircase will be removed to creatwe more roomfor retail, an ice cream parlod and an aquarium wall. Bathrooms will be redone, and hallways and rooms will have softcolorf themes.
“The consumer will walk into the room and feel they will be in a bit of a Tisch said. A couple of yearw ago, $21 million was invested to creatr the and other areas ofthe hotel, and $1 milliomn was spent last year on the the Sushi SoBe, and Nautilus Bar and Stuart Blumberg, president and CEO of the Greater Miamoi and the Beaches Hotel Association, said the latest renovationsx are a sign of how competitivse the industry is. “You gotta keep the produc fresh,” he said. “Yoy can’t sit back and say ‘we’re Loews, we’r e South Beach, we don’t have to do Ten years ago, the Loews openinv came at a critical time for South Blumberg said.
While the Art Deco hotels were making a no new major hotels had openersince 1967. “What it triggered was everything thatfollowedr since,” said Blumberg, mentioning the nearby , South Beac h and the Mandarin Oriental, Miamik on Brickell Key. The willingness to invesg now appears to be partly basedon Tisch’ss long-term understanding of the competitiv landscape in South Florida. His familyy built the Americana which evolved into the the site of which is undetr redevelopment asa St.
Blumberg said he started his career as a bellhop at the and Tisch’s father, Bob, was his