Close User Name Password
Hotel stories straight to your inbox:

Tags: / / / / / / / /

Sneak Peek at the W Atlanta Midtown, Formerly a Fugly Sheraton

January 22, 2008 at 5:19 PM | by juliana | 2 Comments

The Atlanta blog, Around Midtown, has posted some pics of the conversion of the W Hotel Midtown from a Sheraton on their site and this is what the new W will look like. What's going on there? Well Around Midtown breaks it down:

Now construction is finally at the point where you can see some of their plans unfolding, which include painting the predominantly cream building a slate color, accented by a linear black effect up the building. The retaining walls at the ground level are being covered with a slate.

While anything is better than a fugly Sheraton, we have a feeling the folks in Hotlanta might get sick of W Hotels soon. Aside from this one and the current W Atlanta Perimeter, there are Ws set for downtown and BuckHead. Maybe they should just call it Watlanta. Ok, bad joke, we know.

In other news:
· The Crescent Hotel in Texas has officially been renamed the Rosewood Crescent Hotel.
· Luxury hotels in France might get extra tax to fund historic building restorations, making your expensive stay at the Four Seasons George V more expensive.
· If you are visting the Dorchester Hotel anytime soon, you can rest assured that Kate Moss did not have an orgy there...so she says.
· Not hotel related but totally important: RIP Heath Ledger

2 Comments

Post a Comment
  1. Stan

    HotelChatter Member

    Re: Sneak Peek at the W Atlanta Midtown, Formerly

    Maybe they should just call it Watlanta. Ok, bad joke, we know.

    Maybe a bad joke but when Starwood uses it...and they will...you better hit them up for some serious comps.
    January 23, 2008 at 12:20 PM
  1. AndrewC

    HotelChatter Contributing Editor

    Re: Sneak Peek at the W Atlanta Midtown, Formerly

    Glad to see they are re-doing the outside of the building.. that definitely was onnnnneeee fugly sheraton..

    since the w atlanta perimeter center is up for sale - i think it will probably lose its W branding once its sold.. so that means atlanta will only have 3 W's..

    anyway - atlanta has NOTHING on NYC - 5 w's currently open, 1 being built and another juuust across the river in hoboken.. so within a 5 mile radius, 7 w hotels.. now thats my kinda city!!

    January 23, 2008 at 1:42 PM

Leave a Comment

Not yet a member? Click here to become a member.

Already a member? Log in below:

Comment with your Facebook account.