http://www.acehotel.com/portland/
From bikeportland.org:
New hotel will have Dutch bike fleet
Posted by Jonathan Maus
The Ace Hotel — Seattle’s “leading design hotel” — is set to open in Portland on January 30th of next year.
I confirmed today with jorg&olif CEO Rob MacDonald that he is partnering up with the hotel to have a standing fleet of 6-10 Dutch city bikes and possibly even a cargo bike for use by employees and guests.
The company currently offers this service at their Seattle location and they’re hoping to have an even larger presence in Portland. Several Ace employees have already been outfitted with jorg&olif bikes and they’re excited for the partnership.
Ace PDX’s Natasha Figueroa says employees will use the bikes to run errands.
“We’ll have two restaurants inside the hotel and I can imagine a courier service using the cargo bikes to deliver food to local businesses.”
MacDonald says jorg&olif are actively pursuing retail store opportunities in Portland and that given the positive tone of recent talks with investors, we could be seeing a jorg&olif retail store opening here as soon as June 2007.
No details yet on where the store would be located, but the owners of the Ace Hotel are big Dutch bike fans so I wouldn’t be surprised to see a jorg&olif retail operation in the lobby of their new hotel.
I can see it now, “Here’s your room key sir, and don’t forget the key to your U-lock.”
And some background info:
Portland's new concept hotel to accommodate unconventional travelers
Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR), May 13, 2005 by Kennedy Smith
A new downtown hotel will soon fill the market niche for travelers who prefer the Kama Sutra over the Gideons Bible for their bedside reading.
In a $3.3 million transaction, The Clyde Hotel at 1022 S.W. Stark St. in Portland will be renovated and reopened as The Ace Hotel, a value boutique for travelers.
Like its Seattle counterpart, The Ace Hotel caters to the Generation X creative class with its European-style lodging, eclectic decor, and funky and futuristic design - a mixture of both modern and historic, kitsch and classic.
This hotel will have an entirely different look and will appeal to a different market, said developer Robert Sacks of A&R Development Co. We're excited to show Portland a hotel concept that incorporates moderately priced lodging for creative, design-conscious people.
The redesign will combine the Clyde Hotel's existing construction - a brick and terra cotta facade, stone details, original hardware and claw foot bathtubs - with new floor and wall treatments and furnishings.
The building's exterior needs little work, so renovations will mainly focus on the interior of the hotel. The design phase is still in progress, and a budget has yet to be identified.
We like the soul of historic architecture, said Alex Calderwood, Ace Hotel's managing partner. There is an evolution in design from the Seattle Ace to the Portland Ace; we'll offer larger rooms, more common area amenities, a larger lobby presence and possibly meeting space.
The Clyde Hotel will close operations in June and reopen with its new name a few months later. The hotel's current 93 rooms will be converted to around 50 rooms and suites on the upper three floors of the building. The ground floor features retail and restaurant space. Prices will range from $75 to $200 a night.
The project is led by The Ace Hotel Group, a venture of Calderwood and partner Wade Weigel, who also head Rudy's Barbershops and Sweet Mother Recordings. They have plans to expand their concept hotels to other metropolitan cities, including San Francisco, Berlin, Amsterdam and Montreal. The Ace Hotel was named The Next Wave of hoteliers in Time Magazine's list of 100 innovators. Its Seattle location has been open since 1999.
Architecture firm MacNaughton and Raymond, which also designed the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, will design the hotel renovations.
The developer, A&R Development Co., recently completed a West End project that includes American Apparel and Masu restaurant. The firm won a Mayor's Award for Design Excellence for its work on Dosha Salon at the corner of Northwest 23rd Avenue and Glisan.
The 28,536-square-foot Clyde Hotel was built in 1912 and valued at $600,000 at its construction. In 1987, the hotel was renamed the Ben Stark Hotel; however, its original name remains set in a tile pattern at the building's entryway. It was nominated to the National Historic Register in 1993.
Daren Duke of Colliers International represented both the seller and buyer in the transaction.
Copyright 2005 Dolan Media Newswires
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