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Goin' Condo

By Sheehan, Patricia
Publication: Lodging Hospitality
Date: Thursday, September 1 2005
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PEOPLE, PRODUCTS & IDEAS THAT MAKE HOTELS LOOK GOOD

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The condo hotel boom presents design challenges and opportunities

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This rendering of a guest living room in the Regent Bal Harbour, FL, a condo hotel under develpment, reflects the refined and luxurious feel that its developer specified.

It's a good time to be a hospitality designer. Development is up in most sectors of the lodging industry and that means lots of work, in both new construction and renovation.

Perhaps the busiest segment currently for design work is condo hotels.

It's a segment that has contributed to a $30-million backlog of work for CVC & Associates, a hospitality outsourcing company headed by Craig V. Cook. Cook has observed the dramatic rise of condo hotels in central Florida, where he says eager developers are buying aging twostory motels, tearing them down and replacing them with 10- to 20-story buildings.

In addition, make sure to read these articles:

  • PCC Launches Management Software for Condo Hotels.
  • SALT LAKE CITY -- PCC, the leading developer of resort management software, formally launched CondotelWare today. The new software specifically for condo hotels will ......
  • Condo Hotels Install New Management Technology;...
  • SALT LAKE CITY -- CondotelWare premiered last month at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit, receiving accolades as the first full-service management software system designed ......
  • Trump International Hotel & Tower Waikiki Beach...
  • Buyers in Honolulu and Japan Simultaneously Chose Luxury Hotel Condominium Suites, a World's First! HONOLULU -- On Thursday November 9, selling from two countries, the ......
  • MAN WITH A HUNDRED MASTERS
  • IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Marco Beach Ocean Resort You couldn't blame Joe Freni, Jr. if sometimes he feels like he's stuck between a rock and a ......
  • CONDO HOTELS: STILL HOT
  • The red-hot condo hotel market shows no signs of cooling off. According to what is the first comprehensive census of the U.S. condo-hotel, timeshare and ......
  • VANTAGE HOSPITALITY GOES UPSCALE
  • IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 1 Barry Greer's Lexington Boutique is a charter member of the chain. Vantage Hospitality Group last month introduced a new brand-The Lexington Collection-that ......
  • Brazil Hotel, Condo-Hotel Supply
  • Brazil Hotel, Condo-Hotel Supply Hotel supply has been booming in Brazil during the past 10 years. Chain affiliated hotels and condo-hotel rooms have tripled since ......
  • CONDO MEETING A SMASH
  • The condo hotel conference at the Conrad Miami Sept. 7 and 8 was a success that far exceeded expectations. Not only did The Inaugural Symposium ......
  • LAKE GUAJATACA CONDO-HOTEL.
  • A US$50 million condo-hotel project will be launched next year at Lake Guajataca, northwestern Puerto Rico, says Victor O. Hensen, a local businessman, reports El ......
  • New association for condo hotel sector.
  • As condo hotel development continues to boom, a new organization, The National Association of Condo Hotel Owners, provides consumers with tools and information to help ......
  • Vegas Condos: Hot Or Not?
  • Las Vegas— The high-rise condo building boom in Las Vegas has become nearly as spectacular as the never-ending hotel/casino building boom. Only now are economists ......
  • The Party Is Over
  • FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA—A generation ago, this oceanfront city an hour north of Miami saw its springs overrun with drunken, deliriously partying college students drawn to ......
  • US$20 million condo-hotel on Vieques.
  • Entrepreneur & developer Roberto Cacho will develop the first condo-hotel in Vieques, reports Caribbean Business (Oct. 19, 2004). It promises to create 80 much-needed jobs ......
  • People In Design: Q&A Jill I. Cole
  • Q You've been in the business a long time and must have seen every kind of hospitality design trend come and go. What's big now?...
  • Condo-hotel tower construction.
  • General manager Jose Manuel Suarez concedes the end-of-year target opening of La Concha in the Condado is "an aggressive time frame", but conditions are ripe ......