Four Seasons in China: Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts and Chinese developer Luneng Group are developing a Four Seasons hotel in Dalian, in China’s Liaodong Peninsula. The 250-room Four Seasons Hotel Dalian will be part of a mixed-use tower and will be designed by NBBJ Shanghai and Hirsch Bedner Associates (HBA) Singapore. Restaurants will be designed by Tokyo-based Strickland; opening is slated for 2020.
Rosewood to manage in London: Rosewood Hotels & Resorts will manage a new hotel in London’s Grosvenor Square owned by real estate investment firm Qatari Diar. The building in the city’s Mayfair district is currently the U.S. Embassy. English architect Sir David Chipperfield will design; an opening date was not given. The property will have 137 guestrooms and suites, five restaurants, a spa, ballroom and retail space.
HOTEL legislation: Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. are introducing legislation that would ban federal officials from spending any taxpayer funds at Trump-owned properties. The Hotel Act — Heightened Oversight of Travel, Eating and Lodging — would essentially ban government officials from staying at any property owned or operated by Trump or his children.
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