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11/28/2007 at 12:30 PM
Tags: Viva Vegas, Miami Hotel Mambo, Hotel News, Hotel Restaurants, Hotel Nightclubs, Nicky Hilton, Nick Lachey, Wilmer Valderamma
If you're a regular visitor to HotelChatter, you know that we heavily cover the hotel going ons in Miami in our Miami Hotel Mambo content, as well as the craziness that happens in Las Vegas in our Viva Vegas content.
Today, we can report on both scenes at once, thanks to the Pure Management Group. We have these people to thank (or hate) for the Pure Nightclub at Caesars Palace, the LAX club at Luxor, the Pussycat Dolls Lounge, and a bunch of other hotspots in Las Vegas.
Today Page Six reports that the group will open a 26,000-square-foot in the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach once the massive renovation project is completed next year.
And in the very near future, Dec. 5th, to be exact, Pure Management will celebrate the grand opening of their Company restaurant, an American bistro, inside the Luxor Hotel & Casino. Described as a "modern ski chalet", (in the Luxor, an Egypitan-themed casino?) the cuisine features American classics and "soon-to-be classics." Executive Chef Adam Sobel, formerly of Restaurant Guy Savoy, heads up the cuisine and celeb investors include Nick Lachey, Wilmer Valderamma, and the dreaded hotelier dropout Nicky Hilton.
This marks yet another change at the Luxor that will hopefully save it from crapping out. We wonder if they will eventually do away with the pyramid?
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· Company, An American Bistro [Official Site]
by juliana
9/13/2007 at 9:00 AM
Tags: Nicky Hilton, Robert Falor, Hotel News, Nick Lachey, Wilmer Valderamma
Note to self: If a Hilton sister ever approaches us with a business proposition, we're running in the opposite direction (unless it involves porn, of course).
If only we could've advised hotel magnate Robert Falor. It looks like any hopes of resuscitating his disastrous plans for the Nicky O hotel are now completely dead. Investors who put up cash for the ill-conceived/financed condo-hotel project filed a lawsuit last week in Cook County Circuit Court, claiming that:
Because the payments under the Contract for Deed were not timely paid and the final closing date has expired, the Contract for Deed has expired, and Printers Row no longer has the right to purchase the Blake Hotel or its property.
Falor, his lawyer, and executives at his real estate company all refuse to talk about this latest development. They're probably just exhausted from doing constant damage control: Two of his other downtown Chicago projects have also ended up in bankruptcy court.
Personally, we like Hotel Blake better anyway without the celebrity tenants. The 162-room hotel in the historic downtown building has comfy beds with red duvets and free WiFi. Though watching Falor's demise is just depressing at this point.
Meanwhile, Nicky Hilton has moved onto the restaurant biz. People reports she's opening a restaurant called The Company at the Luxor with Nick Lachey and Wilmer Valderamma. Look out guys. Nicky's business poison.
Related Stories:
· Nicky O coverage [HotelChatter]
· Another Lawsuit For Falor [Chicago Business]
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