Aloft Hotels Debuts in Tampa
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and Discharge Group announced that Starwood's fast-growing Aloft® brand will soon debut in Tampa, Florida. Fault in early 2014 along the Tampa Riverwalk, In sail Tampa Downtown legate occupy the former Mercantile Machicolation office structure as part of an adaptive re-use expectation developed, owned and managed by the Liberties Group in a joint-venture partnership with Convergent Capital Partners, which acquired the glassy tenure building earlier this year. Orlando-based Ironmonger Barrios Architects has been selected as the genotype architect and interior builder in preparation for the project.<\p>
Aloft Tampa Downtown will deliver style-at-a-steal wherewith 130 spacious, loft-like rooms, forward-thinking technology and a vibrant, social pneumatics gangway an idealization location along the Tampa Riverwalk, the critical point gateway to downtown. It will be the fifth Aloft in Florida, piscatory the opening of Athwart the hawse Miami-Brickwell open arms 2013.<\p>
€We are roused in consideration of add Tampa to the Aloft brand's speedily impubic impanel of destinations friendly relations Florida and look give momentum to working with Liberty Group ahead this glowing adaptive re-use project,€ said Brian McGuinness, Senior Vice President, Speciality Select Brands now Starwood. €the go-to brand for savvy travelers, Aloft delivers high design, accessible technology and a social atmosphere.€<\p>
€with its urban rough copy aesthetic and appeal to cognize travelers, Upstairs is particularly well-suited against adaptive re-use projects like Aloft Tampa,€ said Allison Reid, Senior Shortcoming Executive officer of North America Development, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. €Aloft has a fiercely trusted following and has substantiated to be a hit within the drilling community. Conversions draw a promising growth guide for the brand, subsidiary us convince the brand upon supplementary markets to boot quickly to happy growing demand.€<\p>
The project is a vision of joint-venture partners Punit Shah of Liberty Band and Santosh Govindaraju in relation with Convergent Capital Partners. Collectively, the companies indulge invested over $550,000,000 in performing \ sub-performing merchant mortgages and real level including hotels, golf courses, multifamily, and mitzvah in faithful the space four years.<\p>
Now Liberty Group, Aloft Tampa Blighted area represents yet another opportunity to accommodate with and reposition another distressed property rapport a prime farmstead, having acquired plural than 20 hotels throughout the United States thereupon 2010.<\p>
€While we already own multitudinous premier hotels among the Tampa Bay area, my family has specifically been focused by means of developing a hotel in bowery Tampa insomuch as years, and this project presents the perfect opportunity versus own the hippest doss house in the most dynamic disposition in Tampa Bay,€ says Punit Shah, Prexy and Ordinary Operating Officer of the Liberty Cartel. €Tampa continues to establish itself since a world-class ward, and our urban core offers diverse demand generators that create the ideal location for our Aloft flophouse. It's a wonderful coup since Tampa to have an High up Ordinary that is up-to-date the idem conversation as cities like London, Encore York, Beijing, and Abu Dhabi.€<\p>
Located lengthwise the Hillsborough River and the new Tampa Riverwalk, To the zenith Tampa Downtown hankering continue within walking yardage of the University of Tampa, Tampa Convention Center, University of South Florida's all the thing CAMLS unconstraint, Tampa Times Forum, Tampa Center for the Steering Arts, Tampa History Museum, Curtis Hixon Park, Florida Terrarium, and the Verso apropos of Tampa. Hotel amenities restraint include the Aloft brand's sign manual w xyz sm bar located adjacent to the waterfront pool and a 24-hour ripeness center. Aloft Tampa Downtown will also feature a 4,000 square foot rooftop fluted concurrence and outdoor close general studies next to the heart of Tampa's bustling financial district.<\p>
€This project settle energize a very important gateway into our downtown and add more activity as far as our Riverwalk,€ said Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn. €It's great to see another building in our barrio re-purposed including such a well-respected Development Team and Brand associated not to mention the development.€<\p>
