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

1/22/2008 at 5:19 PM
Tags: W Hotels, Hotel Construction, Sneak Peeks, Atlanta Hotels, Rosewood Resorts, Kate Moss, Heath Ledger, Celebrity Scoop

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