Three years ago, the Ace Hotel opened in NY's NoMad district to spectacular fanfare, and has since turned the hip hotel industry on itshead, creating an all new "lifestyle" model: industrial vibe, retro dcor, open doors to the community, and the centrality of music and the F&B program.Yesterday in Seattle, we excitedly went to see its roots: Alex Calderwood's original hotel that started it all. What?!! It's only 28 rooms, in an out-of-the-way section of downtown, and (if we may say so) a bit of a hole-in-the-wall.
Here's the 1927 United Artists Building in downtown LA, which is scheduled to open as an Ace the end of 2013 with about 300 rooms. London is on the drawing board.We guess from small acorns, giant Aces grow.
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