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The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa is a luxury hotel located in the Kierland neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona.The 11 story hotel opened in 2002 and has 735 rooms. The hotel serves as the centerpiece of the Kierland area with the Kierland Golf Club and Kierland Commons Lifestyle Center.
Westin Hotels & Resorts is an American upscale hotel chain owned by Marriott International. As of June 30, 2020 [update] , the Westin Brand has 226 properties with 82,608 rooms in multiple countries in addition to 58 hotels with 15,741 rooms in the pipeline.
Kierland Commons was created to serve as the community gathering place for the 730-acre (3.0 km 2) master-planned community of Kierland, whose notable features include The Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, the 27-hole Kierland Golf Club, [4] as well as other residential and commercial entities.
Tripadvisor has been the subject of controversy for allowing unsubstantiated anonymous reviews to be posted about any hotel, bed and breakfast, inn, or restaurant. [64]In May 2021, Tripadvisor was criticized for allowing an offensive review to be posted about the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in which a visitor described bringing a baby to the gas chambers.
The franchise, with its corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, [2] includes more than 2,000 hotels in North America. [3] The brand was founded by M. K. Guertin in 1946. As of December 2021, Larry Cuculic is the president and CEO of Best Western. As of 2018, it was nonprofit owned by its franchisee members. [4]
The city of Phoenix is the location of 233 of these properties and districts, including 1 National Historic Landmark; they are listed here, while the remaining properties and districts and 2 National Historic Landmarks are located elsewhere in the county and are listed separately. Twenty properties in Phoenix were once listed, but have since ...
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Street level view of the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel. The first building on the site was the first official Georgia Governor's Mansion in Atlanta, a Victorian-style home purchased by the state in 1870 at the southwest corner of Peachtree Street and Cain Street (later International Boulevard, now Andrew Young International Boulevard).