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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.
W Hotels was launched in 1998 with W New York, a conversion of the former Doral Inn hotel on Lexington Avenue, Manhattan. [2] [3] Barry Sternlicht, then CEO of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Hotels 1995–2005, created the brand. [4]
In December 2015, Thomas B. Mangas, former head of Armstrong World Industries' flooring business, became the CEO at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide effective December 31, 2015. [ 17 ] On November 30, 2018, Marriott International disclosed that its Starwood brand had been subject to a security breach.
In September 1997, Starwood Lodging Trust purchased Westin Hotels, integrating the franchisee into the Starwood brand. [20] In 1999 the hotel was again renamed, becoming The Westin Grand. [24] The Westin underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation from 2010 to 2012. The hotel was renamed The Westin Georgetown on November 30, 2010.
The Westin Casuarina marked the first Westin resort nationwide to feature a casino and was the first Westin in Nevada. [ 25 ] In November 2010, lenders CWCapital Asset Management LLC [ 26 ] filed for foreclosure on The Westin Casuarina, after Columbia Sussex stopped making payments on the property's $160 million mortgage in April. [ 27 ]
The Westin Kierland was developed by a group of investors led by the southwest division of Woodbine Development Corporation of Dallas, Texas. Woodbine was responsible for much the development of the 730-acre (300 ha) Kierland area which had been started in 1989 as a mixed use development with single and multifamily housing, retail and office space.
GIC selected Starwood Hotels to assume management of the property, and it was renamed The Westin Paris on October 10, 2005, [14] adding the suffix Vendôme to its name in 2010. GIC sold the hotel to London-based Henderson Park Capital in 2017 [ 15 ] for €550 million. [ 16 ]
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites is a 367-foot (112 m), 33-story hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed between 1974 and 1977. [6] It was designed by architect John C. Portman Jr. . The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar.