FORT POLK, LA-The first branded hotel on an U.S. military installation has opened here and is now welcoming military travelers.
The Holiday Inn Express at Fort Polk is part of Privatization of Army Lodging program, a public-private partnership between Actus Lend Lease and Intercontinental Hotel Group. Previously, all hotels on Army installations have been owned and operated by the military.
Last summer, Actus Lend Lease assumed ownership the portfolio, and with IHG as the hotel operator, began revitalizing on-post transient housing facilities for soldiers, their families and all official government travelers. The PAL program allows the Army to continue to have an ownership stake in the hotels through a ground lease arrangement, but turns over the operations and management to Actus Lend Lease and IHG.
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