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800-Room Delta Court Gears Up for $38-Mil Makeover

ORLANDO-In early 2002, Universal Partners kicks off a $38-million renovation to the 800-room Delta Court of Flags Hotel. The retooling is designed to take the property from an economy hotel into a four-star destination resort in summer 2003.

By Barbra Murray | Updated on December 20, 2001

ORLANDO-A $38-million upgrade for the Delta Court of Flags Hotel–also known as Delta Orlando and Delta Resort–is scheduled to begin in early 2002. The undertaking is a strategy to debut the economy hotel property in summer 2003 as a four-star destination resort.

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.”

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