NewsOK.com – Hotelier brings diverse global experiences to Oklahoma City’s Skirvin Hilton Hotel
Holland native Martin van der Laan welcomes ‘custodial’ challenge of historic Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City. September 23, 2012
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Hotelier Brings Diverse Global Experiences to Oklahoma City’s Skirvin Hilton Hotel
Original article by Paula Burkes for NewsOK Holland native Martin van der Laan welcomes ‘custodial’ challenge of historic Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City. As a 30-year hotelier with six years on luxury cruise ships, Martin van der Laan has had some amazing experiences. His career has taken him from Buenos Aires to St. Petersburg, […]
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HotelNewsNow.com – Hoteliers Consider Construction Cost-Savers
September 10, 2012 | For HotelNewsNow.com by Stephanie Wharton | Original Article The cost of hotel renovations is increasing at a
Business Journal Table Talk – Monarch Lounge to Bring Classic Touch
July 20, 2012 | For The Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee by Stacy Vogel Davis | Original Article The Hilton Milwaukee City
The Hilton’s New-old Monarch Lounge Downtown
Original Article – JSOnline.com Dressed up for a show downtown? An elegant new lounge might go with that outfit. New but old, actually. The Hilton Milwaukee City Center, 509 W. Wisconsin Ave., has reinstalled its second-floor Art Deco lobby cocktail lounge and reinvigorated the space. While it still has the 1927 hotel’s original wrought-iron metalwork, trio of […]
HOTELS Interview – Chef takes sourcing personally
Sourcing products locally is an expectation these days, but when it comes to finding lobster and crabs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that’s not possible. So, Mark Weber, executive chef at Mason Street Grill in the Pfister Hotel, has decided to do the next best thing. Earlier this year, Weber embarked on his second stone crab-fishing excursion, […]
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Profile Reginald Baylor
For Reggie Baylor, it all started in kindergarten at Milwaukee’s Siloah Lutheran School. It was there that his teacher, Mrs. Arnt, encouraged his passion for art. “She recognized how intense I was,” Baylor recalls. “In fact, she called my mother about a finger painting I did. My mother still has that painting.” Today, Baylor is one […]
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Milwaukee A Literary Tour
For 82 years, the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops were Milwaukee’s literary icons, “the books version of Miller or Pabst,” as one person put it. When the company closed its four remaining stores in late March 2009, devastating the city’s literary community, two of its managers opened new bookstores at two of the Schwartz locations: Boswell’s […]
Milwaukee A Literary Tour
For 82 years, the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops were Milwaukee’s literary icons, “the books version of Miller or Pabst,” as