Ace Hotel
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| Hotel chain | |
| Industry | Hotel |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder | Alex Calderwood Wade Weigel Doug Herrick |
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon |
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Number of locations
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9 |
| Website | acehotel.com |
Ace Hotel is a chain of hotels headquartered in Portland, Oregon. It operates hotels in Portland, New York, Palm Springs, Panama City, Panama, London, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and New Orleans.
The first Ace Hotel opened in 1999. Friends Alex Calderwood, Wade Weigel, and Doug Herrick purchased and transformed a Seattle halfway house into an affordable hotel that would appeal to the creative class. Calderwood and Weigel had previously founded Rudy's, a barbershop concept they started in Seattle that eventually expanded to more than a dozen West Coast locations, and a marketing and advertising company known as Neverstop.
In 2006, Jack Barron and Michael Bisordi (Tungsten Partners) joined the team as owners, and a second hotel was opened in Portland, followed by properties in Palm Springs and New York in 2009.
In 2011, Ace Hotel collaborated with the cosmetics brand uslu airlines to create a nail polish sold in the hotels' mini-bars.
In 2013, an Ace Hotel opened in the Shoreditch neighborhood of London, as well as a property in Panama by the name of American Trade Hotel.
Calderwood had stated a goal of opening a new Ace Hotel every "one to two years". He died in November 2013, shortly after the opening of the London Shoreditch hotel.
Soon after, the downtown Los Angeles location opened in a former theatre, followed by Pittsburgh in late 2015 and New Orleans in spring 2016.
According to Calderwood, the style and furnishing of each Ace property is designed to reflect its location, with an eye towards re-imagining properties that are “challenged.”
The 2011 episode "Blunderbuss" of the sketch comedy series Portlandia had a sketch set at the "Deuce Hotel", where the obnoxiously hip staff hand out complimentary turntables and typewriters to all guests; it was a parody specifically of the Portland Ace Hotel.
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