Chicago is now home to the nation’s highest hotel tax after the City Council unanimously voted on Wednesday to create a Tourism Improvement District and raise the tax on hotel rooms within that district to 19%. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the current combined...
A pair of hotels in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, have temporarily closed over safety concerns after protestors claimed they were accommodating ICE agents. TwinCities.com reports the Hilton DoubleTree Downtown St. Paul sent letters to their guests telling them to find...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has called out the Hilton Hotels Corp. (NYSE: HLT) for canceling and refusing reservations by ICE agents in the Minneapolis area. DHS posted to its X account, “NO ROOM AT THE INN! @HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated...
Phoenix-based Hospitality Capital Partners (HCP), in conjunction with its equity partner National Property Advisors, acquired a portfolio of five Arizona hotels from Service Properties Trust for $72 million. The portfolio encompasses more than 665 rooms consists at...
Two of San Francisco’s largest hotels were sold together at a significant discount. Bloomberg reports Parc 55 and Hilton San Francisco Union Square, which encompass a total of nearly 3,000 rooms, were sold for $408 million – a 75% drop from their combined $1.56...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
