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| Title | Sheraton Corporation of America, 1961 Annual Report |
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| Publisher | Starwood Hotels & Resorts |
| Date | 1961 |
| Description | Sheraton Corporation of America Annual Report for the year ending on April 30, 1961. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | Conrad N. Hilton Papers |
| Digital Collection | Annual Reports from the Hospitality Industry Archives |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/hiltonar |
| Repository | Hospitality Industry Archives, Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management, University of Houston |
| Repository URL | http://www.uh.edu/hilton-college/About/hospitality-industry-archives |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Title | Image 12 |
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| File Name | hiltonar_201609_023_012.jpg |
| Transcript | 10 NEW PROPERTIES AND ADDITIONS ... five hotels added Openings In Hawaii the new Diamond Head Wing opened at the Princess Kaiulani, adding another 210 luxury rooms to Sheraton's Waikiki Beach properties. With increasing convention business boosting year-round occupancy, your Company is in the advantageous position of having the greatest concentration of guest rooms (1450) in Hawaii. Overseas, the Sheraton-Tel Aviv was completed on the shores of the Mediterranean in Israel and opened its doors with heavy reservations for the first three months of operations. This favorable trend is continuing. The Midwest has a luxurious new convention center in the 1050-room Sheraton-Chicago, on North Michigan Avenue, with 600 new rooms having been integrated with the completely refurbished original 450 rooms of the 42-story Sheraton tower section. In Baltimore, the 150-room Sheraton-Baltimore Inn opened opposite the John Hopkins Hospital, a convenient motor hotel offering many of the facilities found in downtown hotels (such as our own elegant Sheraton-Belvedere). Acquisitions In Oklahoma City, the largest hotel in the state, the former Oklahoma Biltmore, became the Sheraton-Oklahoma when Sheraton took over management of the 26-story, 600-room property under a lease arrangement which includes an option to purchase within seven years. Extensive renovations should help make this property one of the finest and most prosperous in the Midwest. A former Sheraton property, the Stonehaven in Springfield, Mass., was reclaimed by the Company and, with modernization, has assumed a new concept as the Sheraton Motor Inn, offering travelers all the advantages of a highway hotel. Similarly, in Worcester, Mass., the Bancroft Hotel rejoined Sheraton as the Sheraton-Worcester. Refurbishing already has begun and it is expected this popular hotel will prove a distinct asset to the system. Future additions: 1962 The Sheraton-Lincoln, 26-story luxury hotel and office building, will open in expanding downtown Houston in March. In addition to 500 guest rooms, the building will have considerable function space, a ballroom, specialty dining rooms, private club and offices of the Lincoln Liberty Life Insurance Company. In June, Sheraton will open in Kingston the first property there with major convention facilities. The Sheraton-Kingston, expected to be completed prior to the opening of the IX Central American and Caribbean Games in Jamaica, will have 200 guest rooms and a ballroom accommodating 800 persons. Your Company will also operate a 150-room hotel, the Sheraton-Maui on the island of Maui, Hawaii, being built as part of an 875-acre luxury resort at Kaanapali Beach (opening: Summer, 1962). The area, being developed by American Factors, Ltd., of Honolulu and Pioneer Mill Company, Ltd., of Maui, will include a 2^£ mile white sand beach, championship golf courses, cottage colonies, beach and yacht club and convention center. On the ocean at Condado, in the Santurce section of San Juan, the 450-room Sheraton-San Juan is scheduled to open late in 1962. The 22-story hotel will have a swimming pool with cabanas, tennis courts, a casino and supper club, as well as a large ballroom and convention hall on its five-and-a-half acres of beachfront property. |