|
Iconic Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., Seeks Return to Glory.
|
By Douglas Hanks III, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 29--The landmark Fontainebleau Hilton Resort in Miami Beach is ready to build a second luxury tower in an effort to upgrade its iconic but aging resort.
Once the winter getaway of such stars as Bob Hope and Elvis Presley, the Fontainebleau has seen its cachet eclipsed by more fashionable South Beach hotels.
About 60 percent of its business comes from business groups and conventions, meaning it misses out on the higher-paying leisure travelers, a customer base less sensitive to ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)
|
Oceanfront gem - Miami Beach's storied Fontainbleau exudes Rat Pack-style class.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...has booked him into Miami Beach's Fontainebleau hotel for a well-deserved...jewel in the tiara of Miami Beach. The Fontainebleau, located mid-Beach...the same time. The Fontainebleau is to Miami Beach what the Waldorf is...
|
|
|
Teens, parents take classic Miami beach break.(Travel)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...classic, Miami Beach's biggest hotel, the Fontainebleau. This fabled...Exit the Fontainebleau grounds...the famous Miami Beach wooden boardwalk...length of Miami Beach. I sat on...content at the Fontainebleau they didn...
|
|
Restored Fontainebleau Graces Miami Beach
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; Restored Fontainebleau Graces Miami Beach Host: MELISSA...BLOCK, host: In Miami Beach this weekend...and '60s, the Fontainebleau Hotel was the...never been to Miami Beach, you may know the Fontainebleau from the James...
|
|
The making of Miami Beach: 1933-1942, The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon. (Book Notes).(Review)
Magazine article from: American Studies International
; ...and Allan T. Shulman. The Making of Miami Beach: 1933-1942, The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon (Miami Beach: Bass Museum of Art, and New York...cloth). In its physical aspects, Miami Beach ranks as perhaps the most modern community...
|
|
|
Miami Beach, Fla., to Receive Financial Help from Visitors Bureau, County.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ...way for cash-strapped tourist mecca Miami Beach. According to a proposed five-year agreement...4 million, respectively. For months, Miami Beach officials had complained that as the...increased, so did the amount of money Miami Beach ended up paying for services needed...
|
|
|
Light-Rail Proposal Faces Key Vote in Miami Beach, Fla.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ...Trains have got no business in Miami Beach. Saying they will bring riff-raff, hippies and undesirables to Miami Beach, many residents are speaking out...generational and social divisions between Miami Beach residents in their visions of the...
|
|
The sands of time find Miami Beach on way back
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...not-so-glamorous retirement community, Miami Beach has repositioned itself for another...redevelopment. For the last four years, Miami Beach recorded a discernible shift from a...attitudes and positive change among Miami Beach's leadership and business community...
|
|
|
MIAMI BEACH'S CRAZY COMEBACK
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; MIAMI BEACH In a lobby rosy with pink light, a pot-belli...Rasta man surveys the scene. Ya mon, it's Miami Beach - cultural crazy-quilt and Art Deco extravaganza...hopelessly foreign. But one thing is certain: Miami Beach is one of the world's foremost preserves...
|
|
|
The anachronisms and amenities of aging Miami Beach
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; MIAMI BEACH Until they build a...is fabulous, still. Miami Beach stretches for about...into the Caribbean. Miami Beach caters to big spenders...hand, there is the Miami Beach that smacks of decay...co-exists with English. Miami Beach has 300 hotels, ...
|
 "Sunday Business (London, England)")
|
Miami Beach moves to a red-hot Latin beat.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Business (London, England)
; ...mere three-hour flight from New York, Miami Beach is a clubbing hotspot. While Brighton...London, has pebbles and sticks of rock, Miami Beach offers sun-kissed sand and a blistering...cannot match the cosmopolitan flavour of Miami Beach. America, the land of the bland, offers...
|
For more facts and information,
see all results
Find more facts and information related to the article "Iconic Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., Seeks Return ..."
