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Denizen Update: Probably Gone But Not Forgotten

Oh Denizen. You seem to be gone — your website is dead, there's been nothing but quiet since development was suspended, which is probably the wise (and law-abiding!) thing to do — but we just like to do little updates now and then just to remind the world that, though you may be gone-ish, we haven't forgotten you.

And neither has Hilton, we suppose. While we assume legal proceedings and negotiations and possible out-of-court (and outta the press) settlements are underway, we noticed the brand is absent from the Hilton Family website — but not, it seems, absent from some of the press releases we've seen going around lately (like this one), listed among the rest of Hilton's babies ("The company owns, manages or franchises some of the best known and highly regarded hotel brands including Hilton, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Denizen Hotels, Doubletree..." etc, etc.) Interesting, no? Well, no. Not really.

The truth is, we just don't really know what's going on and the Hilton peeps have done a damn good job of keeping the press away from what we assume is a whole lot of interesting action going on very quietly between Denizen and Starwood. We're sticking with our guess that the thing's totally dead in the water, but — like the sorta-mean frenemy who will always remind you of the time you wet your pants in 3rd grade — we are going to continue to bring it up from time to time so nobody forgets that we're watching and waiting for the outcome of this.

Or someone could just, like, tip us off.