http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-23T11:42:57Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Closing http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/7/6/121519/5986 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/curbed_cooperssq_teardown.jpg" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.curbed.com/archives/2007/07/06/cooper_square_hotel_a_tear_down_before_its_even_up.php">Curbed</a> is speculating today that the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Cooper+Square+Hotel/local/247"><b>Cooper Square Hotel</b></a> project might be over.<p>The site has posted numerous pictures (like this one) of the construction and reports that construction crews have been "seen using jack hammers to chew away at those crazy concrete columns" meaning that the hotel could be a tear down before it has even opened.<p>Which isn't that surprising given all the &nbsp;drama with Gregory Peck and his PeckMoss development company which crashed and burned not too long ago. But to hack down a building that's half-way up is a big deal. Curbed has some ideas as to who or what could be behind this and commenters on the story are saying something was built juliana 2007-07-06T12:15:19-05:00 40.727769 -73.990788 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/11/27/124132/96 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hotel_roberts.jpg"><p>An Indiana hotel has recently got a new life after it closed down on Oct. 31, thanks to a new reality TV show, which will film celebrities as they try to become city police officers. <p>Sixty to 70 rooms at <b>The Hotel Roberts</b> in Muncie has been rented out by Tom Forman Productions through mid-January and the celebrities and television crews will have "exclusive" use of the hotel as they undergo 10 days of law enforcement training.<blockquote><p>Furniture and draperies from most hotel rooms had been removed since the closing and stored on the facility's first floor, [the hotel's owner] said. "We had to quickly refurnish those rooms," he said. The hotel will maintain a "skeleton staff" of mostly housekeepers juliana 2006-11-27T12:41:32-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/6/29/132512/664 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/whitewall.jpg"><p>It was a sad day yesterday for the 100 employees of the <b>Holiday Inn South Beach Resort.</b><p>After 40 years of business, the place shut down for good to make way for the <a href="http://www.wsouthbeachresidence.com/"><b>W South Beach Hotel &amp; Residences.</b></a> Little did we know this Holiday Inn was the first national hotel chain in Miami beach when it opened in 1966, giving hundreds of old New Yorkers a place to visit each winter.<p>The place was sold in 2004 to make way for the W South Beach but was still operating until yesterday. However, <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2005/11/29/232421/41">when we visited</a> last Fall, W Hotels had pretty much taken over, plastering a giant sign over the Holiday Inn and setting up a sales office juliana 2006-06-29T13:25:12-05:00 25.797793 -80.127430 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/6/2/114942/3065 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/lasramblas_kaput.jpg">Remember the good old <b>Las Ramblas</b> days?<p>The $3 billion Related casino-hotel-condo project was to be backed by George Clooney, Rande Gerber would do the nightlife and Brad Pitt may have hopped in the mix as well.<p>Then Clooney went on Larry King Live and kept muttering "Mandatory Jackets." Soon rumors surfaced that the project was being pushed back. Finally, the whole thing fell to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/4/3/92539/05742/celeb/Las_Ramblas_Craps_Out">shambles.</a> <p>Now, the <a href="http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2006/06/01/news/news01.txt">Las Vegas Business Press</a> analyzes what went wrong here and tries to find the answer as to how this project went from major news to a joke told at "local happy hours and dinner parties."<p> The biggest emerging factor for the demise is that it was too costly and didn't juliana 2006-06-02T12:05:50-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2006/5/24/145114/692 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/biloxi_casino.jpg"><b>The Grand Casino Island View Hotel</b> in Biloxi, MS, was demolished over the weekend and the site's new owner <a href="http://www.harrahs.com"><b>Harrah's</b></a> plans on building a brand-spanking-new resort worth $1 billion. <p>The 11-year-old building had been damaged by Hurricane Katrina but was still salvagable. However, Harrah's had other ideas in mind. The new hotel will take at least a couple of years to build but Harrah's may have the casino part ready on another part of the site later this summer.<p>One of our tipsters weighs in on the developments:<blockquote><p>It's highly likely that Harrah's will implode the adjacent Casino Magic tower as well. &nbsp;They just swapped a couple of dowdy riverboat casinos in Louisiana for the Casino Magic property in juliana 2006-05-24T14:59:49-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/