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McKibbon Wins Top Marriott Award
McKibbon Hospitality has been awarded Marriott International’s top hospitality manager award, the only company in Florida to receive the designation for 2016. McKibbon also received the award in 1995, the first year Marriott made the designations. The Partnership Circle Award is given annually to only about a dozen companies nationwide that own or manage 10 Marriott hotels or more.
Read MoreSneak Peak of the AC Hotel
View photos of the AC Hotel, currently under construction on Broadway St. in Asheville, NC.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality Unveils Revamped Corporate Headquarters
McKibbon Hospitality finished expanding its Tampa headquarters today. The 10,000-square foot office in Avion Park's Westshore business district was constructed and designed by local architects, designers and consultants.
Read MoreTampa Hotel Management Firm Adds Aloft in Orlando to its Roster
Tampa's McKibbon Hospitality has added the Aloft Orlando Downtown hotel to its management portfolio, expanding its presence in Orlando. McKibbon currently manages three hotels in Orlando, and adds the new Aloft Hotel to its portfolio alongside Aloft Greenville Downtown, Aloft Asheville Downtown, and Aloft Tallahassee Downtown.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality Tops Out Dual-Brand Marriott
McKibbon Hospitality topped out the construction of a 22-story tower at the site above the Epicentre entertainment complex in Charlotte, NC. The structure will host a 184-room AC Hotel, a 116-room Residence Inn, 2,400 sq. ft. of meeting space, a two-bedroom super suite on the rooftop level, an independent rooftop restaurant and bar, as well as restaurant and retail space for lease. It is slated to open in early 2018.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality Adds Three More Awards to its Industry Honors List
McKibbon Hospitality announced the addition of three industry awards – Homewood Suites by Hilton “Catch Me at My Best” Award, Homewood Suites by Hilton Spirit Award and the Absolut Bartender Mix Off “Fall for Greenville” bartending competition.
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A to the refurbishing of the former BB&T Building on the west side of Pack Square. The office tower will be converted into an upscale hotel/condominium building with 128 hotel rooms on the second-ninth floors, two restaurants on the first level and 54 condominiums on floors 10-18. More importantly to the community, the modernist exterior will give way to a post-modern look.
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In the midst of a transformational overhaul that will quite literally change the face of downtown, the building has been stripped to its core — 18 levels of poured concrete and the reinforced concrete pillars holding it all together.
Read MoreAsheville's Tallest Building Changing Face of Downtown Again
John McKibbon and his company, McKibbon Hospitality, have quite a regeneration planned for the former BB&T building. Within the next 18 months, the tallest building in Asheville will evolve into an upscale hotel/condominium development called The Arras, with 128 hotel rooms, two restaurants and 54 condos ranging in price from $600,000-$1.7 million. The building will once again become a centerpiece of downtown, hearkening back to the way the eye-catching tower commandeered Pack Square a half century ago.
Read MoreLeaving Inspired: McKibbon ONE Conference Delivers More than Information
The McKibbon ONE conference is a three-day leadership event that brings together McKibbon Hospitality team members, ownership groups and investors, and other partners. We arrived expecting to learn more about our client and their future plans as well as what’s new in the hospitality industry, and we did. But the conference delivered far more than information. It inspired and motivated the more than 200 attendees, and everyone returned home with a much-needed fresh perspective on work – and life.
Read MoreAshVegas Hot Sheet: Archetype Brewing, Jargon, Sub Grasso All Open In West Asheville
Aloft Asheville Downtown kicks off its Sundays Live@Aloft local concert series this Sunday at 5 p.m. with Jim Arrendell and The Cheap Suits. The event is open to the public and a suggested $5 donation will benefit Homeward Bound, a local non-profit organization dedicated to ending homelessness in Buncombe and Henderson counties.
Read MoreTurn Cameras Toward Mid-Century Modern
Mid-Century Modern architecture now qualifies for historic preservation, and Orlando’s Historic Preservation Board has chosen it as the theme for the board’s 2018 calendar contest. Orlando examples include the 1960s OUC administration building, designed by architect Richard Boone Rogers, that in 2013 was renovated to become the Aloft Orlando Downtown hotel at 500 S. Orange Ave.
Read MoreArt is Aloft
Everyone knows Greenville is an art-loving city, and our business community is no exception when it comes to sharing the love. One popular supporter (and a must-see for rotating local art) is The Aloft Greenville Downtown which features a gallery wall where local artists have an opportunity to participate in a “pop up” style show. The hotel hosts up to six local artists each year, hanging the art in the WXYZ Lounge for easy viewing.
Read MoreAloft Celebrates One Year of Foster Dog Success
Aloft Greenville is celebrating one year of helping guests and locals check out with a pup. The downtown hotel and Let'em Live Upstate held an anniversary party Tuesday night in honor of the hotel's foster dog program. Launched in April 2016, the program has helped more than 30 dogs find a home.
Read MoreMcKibbon Completes Tampa Expansion
McKibbon Hospitality, which has been growing amid a surge of hotel development nationwide, has expanded its corporate offices in the Westshore district in Tampa. With its new 10,000-square-foot-office, McKibbon can both accommodate recent growth and prepare for future personnel additions.
Read MoreTDA Grapples With Image Problem
TDA members met on Thursday, March 23, for the organization’s annual strategic planning retreat at Antler Hill Village at Biltmore. The authority tackled a marathon agenda, while also providing space on the schedule for discussion and even public comment.
Read MoreFormer Evans Basketball Player Now A Hotel President
I have done plenty of stories on athletes from the county who went on to have success at the college level, and some even made it professionally in their sport of choice. Hassen did play a little college ball, but certainly never made it as a pro on the hardwood. I may enjoy this story even more. He took a great family foundation, a positive demeanor and uncanny work ethic, definitely enhanced by his sports background, and parlayed it into a career most can only dream of.
Read MoreFront of Asheville's BB&T Building Being Stripped
Visitors to Asheville's Pack Square got a good look at work on the front side of the BB&T building Wednesday as work crews are busy transforming it into Hotel Arras.
Read MoreMcKibbon Hospitality Announces Completion of Corporate Office Expansion at Avion Park
McKibbon Hospitality, an award-winning leader in the hotel development and management industry, announced today that it has completed its corporate office expansion in Avion Park’s Westshore business district in Tampa. The expansion complements McKibbon’s ongoing evolution, recent company rebrand, and vision to grow its hotel development, management and renovation divisions. McKibbon worked with a team of local architects, designers and consultants to implement cutting-edge features that make the space truly unique.
Read MoreHotel Developers to Court: Officials made Demands before Hearing
Hotel developers are asking a Buncombe County Superior Court judge to overrule the City Council's rejection of a proposed eight-story downtown Embassy Suites hotel. The council has said it wants to eliminate the more formal conditional use permit hearing in favor of conditional zoning. The council asked for similar conditions in January 2016 with developer John McKibbon for the Arras hotel going into the former BB&T building. But that was a different process, known as as conditional zoning application. It's not quasi-judicial and allows discussion with a developer before and during a hearing.
Read MoreAsheville Hotel Boom Echoes South
Downtown is booming with hotel construction, but just to the south there's another mini-boom. Everyone knows there’s a hotel boom going on downtown, but just to the south in the Biltmore Village area there's an echo of that construction surge with more than $30 million planned in new lodging facilities.
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