NOBLE INVESTMENT GROUP ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF THE MACON MARRIOTT CITY CENTER HOTEL
Macon City Officials on Hand to Personally Welcome First Marriott Guest
ATLANTA, Ga. – September 10th, 2009 Privately held Noble Investment Group (“Noble”), a leading sponsor of private equity real estate funds and an integrated lodging and hospitality operating, development, and advisory organization, announced the completion and opening of the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel. Noble’s new 220-room full-service Marriott hotel, located on Coliseum drive and connected to the Macon Centreplex, are collectively under the leadership of general manager David Rosenberg and his team of hospitality professionals. The Noble team, along with Macon Mayor, Robert Reichart, and several city officials welcomed the first official guest of the hotel and toasted the successful public-private partnership between the City of Macon and Noble which resulted in the realization of the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel.
Located in the second largest city in the state of Georgia, the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel and Macon Centreplex brings four-star accommodations, Noble’s signature restaurant and bar, Vintage, and first class meeting space to the heart of historic downtown Macon. Featuring 220 guest rooms and suites, the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel provides guests with on-site audio/visual services, technologically advanced business center, high-speed internet access, in-room dining, laundry/valet service, and a state-of-the art health club and indoor pool. Luxurious bedding with 300-thread count sheets, large bathrooms featuring wood, marble and chrome elements, and crisp lines with warm toned walls welcome guests into comfortable surroundings influenced by Macon’s rich history and culture. Each room features 32-inch flat panel plasma televisions, complete with speakers, digital music and data ports, and a custom designed pivoting desk and ergonomic chair for the business traveler.
Visitors and guests alike will enjoy the comfort and convenience of the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel’s M.I. (Marriott International) Greatroom, a.k.a., The Lobby {Reinvented}. The M.I. Greatroom is a place where business and leisure intersect in a stunningly stylish, energetic and multidimensional setting that inspires guests to engage, relax, work and play. The M.I. Greatroom is an ideal spot for guests to engage in small work groups, gather in a casual dining experience or socialize and unwind in an inviting, comfortable, living-room atmosphere with intimate social zones, enabling guests to tailor the use of the space to suite their own needs, much as they would do in their own homes.
Connected to the Macon Marriott City Center Hotel, major enhancements have been made to the Macon Centreplex. Featuring beautifully upgraded 120,000 square foot meeting and event space, the Macon Centreplex provides a venue for conventions, conferences, and special events in a 30,000 square foot hall, 9,000 seat arena, 85,000 square feet of uninterrupted exhibition space, as well as a flexible 9,100 square foot ballroom with 19 breakout rooms. In addition to the highly functional convention facilities, the Macon Centreplex offers an elegant, historic 2,688-seat auditorium featuring professional acoustics and a concert stage. In addition, the Macon Marriott City Center offers 5,000 square feet of wired for business meeting space and special event space for weddings. Together with the Macon Centreplex, Noble’s award winning experienced event management team provides exceptional catering capabilities, to go along with the areas signature restaurants, art galleries, unique boutiques, and historical attractions.
About Noble
Founded in 1993, the Noble organization is comprised of strategic business units that specialize in the lodging and hospitality real estate sector. Noble's overarching mission is to be the most respected hospitality organization in the United States, as measured by the loyalty of our team members, our customers, our financial stakeholders and the communities in which we live and operate.
Through its private equity real estate funds, Noble Investment Group is a value-added, active investor in hotels and resorts throughout the United States. Since inception, Noble has realized premium, risk-adjusted returns while investing more than $1 billion in the lodging sector. The organization's current discretionary private equity fund represents $310 million of equity commitments.
Noble Management Group, the organizations award winning operating division, currently manages more than 9,000 hotel and resort guest rooms throughout the United States which are affiliated with Marriott, Hyatt, Starwood, Hilton, and InterContinental Hotels Group. In addition, Noble Management Group operates convention and conference centers with more than 1 million sq. ft. of meeting space, day and resort spas, upscale restaurants, and is a franchisee of Starbucks Coffee retail stores.
Noble Development Group, the organizations value-added project management team, leads the planning, programming, construction management and realization of complex lodging renovation, re-development, and conversion strategies. Noble Development Group has completed approximately $2 billion of urban, resort and mixed-use hospitality projects throughout North America.
Noble Lodging Advisors, the organizations institutional advisory, asset management and capital markets team, utilizes the financial resources of Noble Investment Group and/or the value-added competencies of Noble Management Group and Noble Development Group to help balance sheet lenders, special servicers, the FDIC, and other institutions, find accretive solutions to their lodging investments. www.nobleinvestment.com
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