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DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - hooverblazer - 05-09-2018 04:01 PM
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2018/05/doubletree_undergoing_20_milli.html#incart_river_index
Pretty cool they're incorporating so many UAB elements into the design. This should be the default place where we put people up on official visits.
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - mixduptransistor - 05-09-2018 05:19 PM
Good to see. I was in town this past weekend and this is where we stayed, it is...rough...to put it nicely
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - ATTALLABLAZE - 05-10-2018 02:33 PM
Don't tell Wadney........ LOL
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - BlazerPhil - 05-10-2018 03:03 PM
I spent 2 years there working the front desk in 1986 & 87. Probably hasn't been remodeled since then. LOL
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - BlazerFromMD - 05-11-2018 09:20 AM
(05-10-2018 03:03 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote: I spent 2 years there working the front desk in 1986 & 87. Probably hasn't been remodeled since then. LOL
Wasn't it a Radisson back then?
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - BlazerPhil - 05-11-2018 09:35 AM
(05-11-2018 09:20 AM)BlazerFromMD Wrote:(05-10-2018 03:03 PM)BlazerPhil Wrote: I spent 2 years there working the front desk in 1986 & 87. Probably hasn't been remodeled since then. LOL
Wasn't it a Radisson back then?
It was "The Birmingham Hilton".
- The lobby had just been remodeled, so the BHM Hilton was chosen to shoot a commercial for the property group that owned the Hiltons in the Southeastern U.S. The 2 gals I was working with, both were senior to me, but one was preggers and didn't want to be filmed, and the other you couldn't see over the desk, so I was in the Hilton commercial for the next 2 years.
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - UABslant - 05-14-2018 10:50 AM
It was a Radisson after being a Hilton. Then Hilton bought it back and turned it into a Doubletree. The worst thing about that building was that it had budget issues during its initial construction and the facade was left undone, leaving raw concrete exposed. You can still see the plywood grain pattern left behind from the original forms.
Hopefully that will be fixed as well.
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - BAMANBLAZERFAN - 05-14-2018 02:24 PM
They tore down a motel for the soccer stadium and one or two became apartments. How many motel / hotel rooms does the UAB campus (including 5 Points South) now have to offer for public use?
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - BlazerFromMD - 05-15-2018 08:39 AM
More than 2.
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - hooverblazer - 05-15-2018 09:09 AM
(05-14-2018 02:24 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: They tore down a motel for the soccer stadium and one or two became apartments. How many motel / hotel rooms does the UAB campus (including 5 Points South) now have to offer for public use?
Doubletree, Residence Inn, Homewood Suites, Hotel Indigo, and Courtyard Marriott. Just outside that boundry is SpringHill Suites and the new Hilton Garden Inn/Home2 Suites that are both within reasonable walking distance to campus.
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - mixduptransistor - 05-15-2018 09:43 AM
(05-14-2018 02:24 PM)BAMANBLAZERFAN Wrote: They tore down a motel for the soccer stadium and one or two became apartments. How many motel / hotel rooms does the UAB campus (including 5 Points South) now have to offer for public use?
No one was using that motel who was affiliated with UAB. It was a liability. In the time since that has been closed there have been like 4 or 5 hotels opened on or adjacent to the UAB campus
RE: DoubleTree Undergoing $20M Renovation, Rebranding as UAB Flagship Hotel - BirminghamJoseph2770 - 05-15-2018 12:42 PM
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