WestCoast Hospitality, Wright Hotels Announce Plans to Expand Hotel

PORTLAND-Wright Hotels and West Coast Hospitality are joining forces to transform the 170-room Holiday Inn across from the Oregon Convention Center into a 370-room Red Lion. Further expansions also are being planned that would give Portland the kind of convention-sized hotel it’s been seeking.

Wright Hotels owns the hotel property. WestCoast Hospitality owns the Red Lion brand. After taking down the Holiday Inn sign at the end of the month and completing a remodel this summer, Wright Hotels will raise the Red Lion flag and begin seeking entitlements to expand the hotel by at least 200 rooms on adjoining property it already owns.

“Wright Hotels has looked at the expansion and there does seem to be room, but it is fairly early in the planning stage,” a spokesman for WestCoast Hospitality tells GlobeSt.com. A source at Wright Hotels was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday on the cost of the remodel and the proposed expansion. In a prepared statement, Wright President Stuart Rolfe said he chose WestCoast because it brings “attributes of considerable size, yet is still small enough that the attention of top management is there and available through our multi-phase development effort.”