The donation will help support the programmatic and career development elements of the Marriott-Sorenson Center for Hospitality Leadership, which will be housed within the Howard University School of Business.
'At Studio 54 you had regular people next to celebrities,' he says. 'Everyone was there to have a good time.' The same communal sensibility can translate to hospitality.
Chatbots, plentiful amenities, and hardly any furniture: Hotelier Ian Schrager’s newest venture aims for luxury on the cheap.
Will now launch new hotel company, SCHRAGER HOTELS, and two new hotel brands and roll them both out in 24-hour international gateway cities around the world
Ian Schrager officially acquired on April 1st, 2010 the historic landmark Ambassador East Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, located in the heart of the exclusive Gold Coast. This coveted location is the city's most desirable retail, dining, entertainment and residential neighborhood.
Russell will oversee the sourcing, acquisition, financing, asset management and real estate administration of the company as well as its development.
Ian Schrager brought hipness to hospitality. But his quirky new Gramercy Park Hotel project says that uncool is now the place to be
Following rapid and substantial growth and leading the way for further expansion, Ian Schrager Company (ISC) announced the appointment of Mitchell C. Hochberg as President and Chief Operating Officer.
The boutique hotel industry has finally come of age. Twenty-one years after it was invented by Ian Schrager, a nightclub entrepreneur, in New York, his business is going public. But the company he created, Morgans Hotel Group, will have to cope without him; he resigned as chief executive last June. It will be interesting to see if the group can retain its cutting edge, especially as the segment has become steadily more crowded.
When four years ago Ian Schrager opened the Sanderson, his latest venture in ultra-hip hotels with chic interiors, eye-watering prices and a clientele to match, he declared: 'London is hot right now. That's why my strategy is to come here and saturate London with multiple properties - maybe as many as seven hotels.'