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Just Kidding: Kimpton Pulls Out of the Fairwind

Oops, nevermind: we just got word from a Kimpton rep that the boutique-y chain is officially off the Fairwind Miami restoration project. Earlier this week, we reported that Kimpton had teamed up with Shulman + Associates architects to revive the historic Fairwind Hotel, with the goal of turning it into "a contemporary boutique resort" — but we shoulda known that no-completion-date-listed (on the Kimpton website, where we found the info) usually means things aren't set in stone.

And that was the case here: a rep for the hotel company says:

Unfortunately, this project is no longer in our pipeline due to challenges on the development side (as you know, we’re not the owners of the project, but just the management company brought in to run the hotel.) We realize it’s still on our Kimpton website, and we’re working to pull that off as we speak.

Whoops! Well, at least they're still keeping their Miami groove with EPIC — which seems to be going just fine.