Chicago’s Elysian to turn Waldorf Astoria on Feb. 1

It’s official. Hilton Worldwide’s announcing that Chicago’s top-rated Elysian will join a oppulance Waldorf Astoria collection starting Feb. 1, 2012.

The hotel in 2009 non-stop as an eccentric oppulance boutique hotel; Crain’s Chicago initial reported final week that a tenure change and new code connection would happen.

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Crain’s cited unnamed sources, though Hotel Check-In has listened a same information from sources.

Other oppulance brands from a U.S. and abroad had also visited a hotel to presumably run it.

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The hotel will take a code name since a other partial of a news is that billionaire banker Sam Zell is shopping a hotel for about $95 million, sources tell Crain’s.

If true, a per-room cost for a 188-room hotel would be $505,000 – a highest, Crain’s says, for a Chicago hotel. Zell apparently expects to lift a hotel’s value by bringing in Hilton to conduct it and marketplace it to a millions of customers.

The owners of a hotel, that non-stop during a retrogression dual years ago and still isn’t creation money, wanted to keep a skill though couldn’t find an financier to reinstate a one that wanted to sell a share, Crain’s says.

The essay says that a Hilton orator declined to comment, as did a Zell spokesperson. Crain’s couldn’t get in hold with David Pisor, a hotel owners who had hoped to spin “Elysian” into a hotel brand.

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The Elysian is about a five-minute travel from a Park Hyatt and Peninsula hotels. It’s partial of a 60-story building that has 51 high-end condominiums and one Michelin-star restaurant, Ria. The Elysian’s suites start during $525, Crain’s says.

Readers: Have we been to a hotel, even if only to have a cocktail in a bar or eat cooking during one of a dual restaurants?

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