On the north side of town, a joint venture between Washington, DC-headquartered Carlyle Group and Davidson Hotel Co. in Memphis has acquired the Houston Sofitel Hotel from Accor Worldwide of France. The plan is to operate the 334-room hotel under the Crowne Plaza name, an InterContinental Hotels Group plc brand. Located at 425 N. Sam Houston Parkway E., the hotel will undergo a $12-million renovation as it transitions to the Crowne Plaza Houston North Greenspoint.
On the west side, White Plains, NY-based Starwood has unveiled plans to build two hotels and renovate one in the 200-acre, mixed-use Memorial City at Interstate 10 and Gessner Road. Renovations will shortly begin on the 170-room Radisson Suite Hotel Houston West at 10655 Katy Freeway. It too will get a name change: the Four Points by Sheraton Houston Memorial City. The renovation will be completed in the summer.
Starwood will begin ground-up construction on the sister properties as soon as the Four Points retooling is done. The hotelier will build a 250-room Westin Houston Memorial City and 155-room Sheraton Houston Memorial City. The hotels will open by midyear 2009. Starwood is holding a long-term management agreement for the Memorial City trio.
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