200-ROOM HOLIDAY INN MARKET CENTER OPENS
NEAR DOWNTOWN DALLAS
After a $7 million
building renovation, the nine-story hotel is also home to
Holiday Inn’s new signature The Greenbeanery coffee bar
DALLAS, March 10, 2008 – The new
200-room Holiday Inn Market Center has opened. The hotel, which is
located steps from Dallas’s Market Center (the world’s largest
wholesale merchandise market), underwent an extensive $7 million
renovation, resulting in significant changes to its exterior façade
and completely-redesigned guestrooms, suites, lounges and meeting
space. The hotel, which was also re-flagged under the Holiday Inn
brand as part of the renovation, is located at 4500 Harry Hines
Boulevard, less than two miles from downtown Dallas.
The hotel is owned by a private
investment group led by Thomas J. Corcoran, Jr., the 2008 chairman
of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (the largest trade
association representing the U.S. lodging industry). Dallas-based
Prism Hotels & Resorts has been selected to manage the property.
The new Holiday Inn Market Center will
also be home to the hotel brand’s new signature coffee bar, The
Greenbeanery. The Greenbeanery will serve Rainforest
Alliance-certified coffee, which means that at least 30 percent of
the beans used to brew the coffee come from farms that have met
rigorous environmental and social standards including biodiversity
conservation, worker protection and healthcare and education for
children of farm workers.
The nine-story Holiday Inn Market Center
also has 200 brand-new guest rooms and 16 suites, each with 32”
high-definition flat-panel TVs and complimentary high-speed wireless
Internet access. In addition, the hotel has a full-service
American-style restaurant and lounge, more than 1,600 square feet of
meeting space and an outdoor pool.
Prism Hotels & Resorts currently manages
more than 5,000 hotel and resort rooms across the United States and
the Caribbean.
About Prism Hotels & Resorts
Dallas-based Prism Hotels & Resorts is
one of the fastest growing full-service hotel investment, management
and development companies in the United States. The company
currently manages more than 5,000 rooms for multiple owners in the
11 states and the Caribbean. For more information, please visit
www.prismhotels.com.
About Holiday Inn and InterContinental Hotels
Group PLC (IHG)
Holiday Inn and Express by Holiday Inn -
which both belong to one of the world's largest hotel groups
InterContinental Hotels Group - filled more than 8.8 million rooms
in the 12 months to end-September 2007. InterContinental Hotels
Group PLC (IHG) is one of the world’s largest hotel groups by number
of rooms. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various
subsidiaries, over 3,800 hotels and more than 571,000 guest rooms in
nearly 100 countries and territories around the world. IHG owns a
portfolio of well recognized and respected hotel brands including
InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts,
Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge
Suites®, Candlewood Suites® and Hotel Indigo®, and also manages the
world’s largest hotel loyalty program, Priority Club® Rewards with
over 37 million members worldwide. The company pioneered the travel
industry’s first collaborative response to environmental issues as
founder of the International Hotels and Environment Initiative (IHEI).
The IHEI formed the foundations of the Tourism Partnership launched
by the International Business Leaders Forum in 2004, of which IHG is
still a member today. The environment and local communities remain
at the heart of IHG’s global corporate responsibility focus. IHG
offers information and online reservations for all its hotel brands
at http://www.ihg.com/ and information for the Priority Club Rewards
program at
http://www.priorityclub.com.
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