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200-Room Holiday Inn Market Center Opens Near Downtown Dallas
DALLAS, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 facade 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 downtownDallas.
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 theUnited 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 http://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(R) Hotels & Resorts, Crowne
Plaza(R) Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn(R) Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn
Express(R), Staybridge Suites(R), Candlewood Suites(R) and Hotel Indigo(R),
and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty program, Priority Club(R)
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.
SOURCE Prism Hotels & Resorts
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