Commercial Construction & Renovation

Anew hotel and office building are coming to Hammond's Oxbow Landing development, located along an oxbow on the Little Calumet River. Read The Times of Northwest Indiana story here

The long overdue Yorktowne Hotel renovation appears to be in the home stretch. The York City landmark at 48 E. Market St. is expected to reopen in summer 2022, three years after the original completion date. Read The York Dispatch story here

On Sunday Morning, Dec. 7, 1924, boomtown Seattle awakened to an appetizing analogy in an editorial cartoon atop The Seattle Times front page. A flapper, symbol of freewheeling youth, sat at a sumptuous table, applauding an older, tuxedoed steward who opened a cloche platter revealing a miniature, 12-floor Italian Renaissance edifice. Read The Seattle Times story here

The Opus, Westchester, brings 146 guest rooms and 10,000 square feet of event space to White Plains, 45 minutes north of NYC. Read the MeetingsNet story here

Hilton Worldwide will reflag the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek as the Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek. Read the Frequent Business Traveler story here

Visitors in Pigeon Forge will soon have a new place to stay after a hotel developed from a partnership of three Native American tribes opens. Read the WBIR-TV story here

Marriott International announced the opening of AC Hotel by Marriott Maui Wailea, the first property in the Hawaiian Islands for the AC Hotels lifestyle brand. Read the TravelPulse story here

Local developers are proposing to invest $10 million into renovating the former Illinois State Bank building on 531 Hampshire with the hope of converting it into a boutique hotel. Read The Quincy Herald-Whig story here