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Originally Posted by joeg1985
Actually you may be on to something here. I just realized that the regularly scheduled makeovers that I am thinking of are more often cosmetic rather than actually reconfiguring space. Having to get permits for the work is a different ball game.
Do the permits that you are seeing say how many rooms they intend on changing? I wonder if they are able to reconfigure their floors to squeeze in an extra room or two. Maybe the permits say demolishing 160 rooms to make 169 rooms or something to that effect?
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Here's some from 2014 and early 2015:
* Convert a lounge at the Renaissance on Wacker to new guestrooms. Also had another permit to demolish the interior of the rooms on floors 25-27 for ???
* Renovate 140 rooms at the Marriott on Michigan Ave and add 2 new guest rooms (floors 42-46)
* Convert residential units on floors 18-21 to hotel suites at 55 E Washington
* 45 guest rooms to be altered including the presidential suite at the Embassy Suites in Streeterville.
* Renovation to rooms on floors 8 thru 14 in the Sheraton in Streeterville
* Renovation of lobby, bar, and restaurant at Hotel Burnham
* Alteration of ground floor, 2nd floor lobby, and 3rd floor as well as storefront exterior at Hotel Allegro
* Meeting room and public corridor renovations to floors 1-12 of Hilton Garden Inn on State St.
* 3rd floor lobby renovation to Hotel Chicago Downtown