Universal Partners purchased the 800-room hotel in March and selected Denver, Colorado-based Signature Hospitality Resources to manage it. In a statement to a hotel industry newsletter earlier this year, Universal president Laila Whitwicky explains that the hotel complex "was neglected, so I was looking for a management company that wouldn't see me as just another number. I selected Signature because it had a good track record of repositioning hotels."
Meeting room space will be expanded to 60,000 sf and an area earmarked for an upscale restaurant. The 30-year-old structure sits on a 28-acre parcel, so there is plenty of room for expansion.
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