CHEVY CHASE, Maryland—PM Lodge Group introduced the discharge of its seventh annual sustainability report, highlighting developments in environmental stewardship, neighborhood influence, and social duty throughout its portfolio in 2024.
“Sustainability is a core worth that drives how we lead, function, and innovate throughout our portfolio,” mentioned Joseph Bojanowski, president of PM Lodge Group. “This 12 months’s report displays our collective dedication, from lodge groups to company management, to creating optimistic, lasting influence for our communities, our visitors, and the planet. We’re pleased with the progress made and impressed to proceed evolving our practices for an much more accountable future.”
All through 2024, PM Lodge Group deepened its dedication to sustainability via wide-ranging initiatives that span the portfolio. Throughout the firm’s annual PM Day of Giving, property groups collaborated with Clear the World Occasions, assembling 2,100 hygiene kits that had been distributed to 12 nonprofit organizations throughout the nation. The hassle delivered an estimated 105,000 hand washes, 88,200 tooth brushings, and 44,100 showers, serving to meet important hygiene wants for weak populations. On the Management Convention, groups got here collectively to assist the North Texas Meals Financial institution, bagging 2,500 kilos of meals, equal to five,000 meals, for households in want throughout the neighborhood.
PM Lodge Group additionally partnered with Procure Affect and joined AHLA’s Dignity of Work Pledge. By this initiative, the corporate created 2,000 hours of employment for people going through limitations to work, and up to now, has already generated over 600 influence hours. In a continued push towards greener infrastructure, PM Lodge Group additionally launched a brand new partnership with EV+, ensuing within the set up of EV chargers at ten properties throughout the portfolio. The corporate additionally has plans to deploy 45 extra chargers in 2025.
On the property degree, sustainability remained a precedence throughout the portfolio. In Philadelphia, The Windsor Suites, underneath the management of Space Common Supervisor Burnell Goldman, partnered with Ecodrive to launch a guest-facing reforestation initiative that crops two bushes for each evening housekeeping companies are declined, an effort that has already contributed greater than 5,000 bushes to forest restoration tasks in Rwanda. In Northern Virginia, Airlie sourced produce from its on-site Berkshire Farm, maintained a Nationwide Wildlife Federation habitat certification, and nurtured biodiversity via a thriving pollinator program. And at Hilton BWI Airport, a brand new composting partnership with Veterans Compost diverted over 26,000 kilos of natural waste from landfill whereas creating employment alternatives for returning fight veterans.
Moreover, PM Lodge Group’s celebration of Earth Week 2024 highlighted the creativity and dedication of its lodge groups. At Hilton Baltimore BWI Airport, associates planted a tree on-site and raised funds to plant a further 25 bushes via One Tree Planted. The staff at Philadelphia Marriott Outdated Metropolis marked Earth Day by providing a curated cocktail menu that includes natural spirits from a family-owned distillery, whereas The Westin Wilmington distributed wildflower seed packets to visitors to assist assist native pollinators.
“At PM Lodge Group, we imagine that sustainability is a shared duty—one which lives within the every day actions of our groups and the long-term commitments of our firm,” mentioned Ryan Butler, company director of sustainability and power, PM Lodge Group. “As we have fun Earth Month, we’re proud to share the methods our folks, properties, and companions have come collectively to assist a extra resilient, inclusive, and environmentally accountable future.”
