BETHESDA, Maryland—Marriott Worldwide, Inc. celebrated the groundbreaking of its inaugural StudioRes resort, as Harmony Hospitality started building of its first property in Fort Myers, Florida. Introduced in June 2023, the StudioRes model is Marriott’s reasonably priced midscale extended-stay model in america and Canada.
The StudioRes property in Fort Myers is projected to open in Spring 2025 and is being developed by Harmony Hospitality with its longtime companion Whitman Peterson. Harmony expects to develop round 50 StudioRes properties, spanning a number of dozen submarkets in main U.S. cities, with a number of extra slated to interrupt floor within the coming months.
In line with the corporate’s strategy to assembly the wants of company with regionally related lodging merchandise for each keep goal, StudioRes seeks to ship fairly priced lodging for company searching for longer stays in america and Canada. At 124 rooms and 54,000 sq. ft, the StudioRes prototype is predicted to be Marriott’s most reasonably priced cost-per-key product to develop and construct. Company who’re searching for an extended-stay possibility may have absolutely furnished studio rooms with kitchens and queen beds. Public areas will provide facilities similar to each day espresso service, a health middle, a laundry room, a merchandising space, a communal desk, and a lined patio.
“The groundbreaking of the primary StudioRes resort is a major milestone for Marriott Worldwide, as we proceed to work towards our objective of increasing choices to fulfill the wants of company for each keep goal,” mentioned Marriott Worldwide International Improvement Officer, United States and Canada Noah Silverman. “Taking a brand new construct model from announcement in June to groundbreaking in January is thrilling, and we’re grateful for the longstanding relationship now we have with Harmony Hospitality and Whitman Peterson to deliver the StudioRes imaginative and prescient to life.”
Those that attended the groundbreaking ceremony included Marriott Worldwide President and CEO Tony Capuano and Group President, United States and Canada Liam Brown, together with different senior leaders from the corporate. They joined Harmony Hospitality CEO and President Mark Laport, Whitman Peterson Co-Founder and Co-Managing Associate Bob Whitman, and Associate Paul Novak to have fun the event of the StudioRes model.
“Harmony Hospitality has loved a longstanding, profitable relationship with Marriott. It has been a collaboration of belief, high quality, and strategic development, which is why Marriott has welcomed Harmony as an energetic advisor within the improvement and design requirements of a lot of their present resort prototypes,” mentioned Mark Laport, CEO and President, Harmony Hospitality. “At the moment’s groundbreaking on Marriott’s first StudioRes property is yet one more milestone achievement for us as Harmony continues to stay a top-choice developer and operator for accommodations in North America.”
Over the corporate’s almost 4 a long time, Harmony Hospitality has developed and operated a number of Marriott accommodations throughout North America and presently operates almost 80 properties inside the firm’s portfolio. Total, Harmony Hospitality operates greater than 150 accommodations throughout North America.
