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    Texas Hotel News

    Austin's new luxury hotel to be one of the priciest in Texas — and it's not downtown

    Ralph Bivins
    Apr 13, 2014 | 12:11 pm

    Houston developer Giorgio Borlenghi began work this week on the Hotel Granduca Austin, an Italian-styled luxury hostelry that will command some of the highest nightly rates in Texas. Built on a hillside site in West Austin, the nine-story, 194-room boutique hotel is scheduled to be completed late next year, near the northwest corner of Bee Caves Road and Loop 360.

     

    Granduca will compete in a rarified league with the Four Seasons and a handful of other Austin hotels in the highest tier of room rate, service and luxury amenities. Room rates are expected to be $300 a night or more.

     

    The new hotel will be the second hotel bearing the Granduca brand name. The original Hotel Granduca, which has an average daily rate of $340, opened eight years ago near Houston’s Galleria and is on our list of the best hotels in Texas. Hotel Granduca Austin is a joint venture between Borlenghi’s Houston-based Interfin Companies LP and Riverside Resources of Austin.

     
     

      “It’s in an area of town that’s underserved by hotels. It’s only 15 minutes away from downtown and from UT,” says Hotel Granduca owner Giorgio Borlenghi.

     
     

    Austin is by far the strongest hotel market in Texas, with citywide room rates and an average occupancy rate of 75 percent, which is basically as good as it gets, says hotel consultant Bruce Walker of Source Strategies. The only city to come close to Austin is Houston, with a 69 percent occupancy rate, but other major Texas cities are far behind Austin.

     

    “Austin is a very, very vibrant and amazing hotel market,” Borlenghi says.

     

     Location, location, location
    At first, Borlenghi began looking in downtown Austin for a new hotel site. But large parcels were not available, and several major new hotels are currently under construction downtown, including the 1,000-room J.W. Marriott.

     

    He soon located this Westlake area site off Bee Caves Road and marked out the five acres for planting the Granduca hotel flag.

     

    “It’s in an area of town that’s underserved by hotels. It’s only 15 minutes away from downtown and from UT,” Borlenghi says. “It gives us the opportunity to create our own market and something different, offering a real alternative to people traveling to Austin.”

     

    Borlenghi, who was born in Italy, says the hotel will have an in-house restaurant featuring northern Italian cuisine similar to the Houston hotel’s Ristorante Cavour – recently named one of the best Italian restaurants in Houston.

     

    Gromatzky, Dupree & Associates of Dallas is the architect for the Austin hotel. Ermy Borlenghi Bonfield of 3-E Designs Inc. of Houston, Giorgio Borlenghi’s sister, is handling interior design of the property; his son, Alex Borlenghi, who graduated from UT last year, is working on the hotel as vice president of development for Interfin.

     

    Room rates for the Hotel Granduca Austin have not been established. But Borlenghi says he hopes transport to Austin the success he’s had with the Hotel Granduca in Houston, one of the top-grossing hotels in the state, in the all-important “revenue per available room” yardstick used by the hospitality industry.

     

    “The four most successful hotels in Texas are the Four Seasons in Austin, the Hotel Granduca in Houston, the W in Austin and the Driskill in Austin,” Borlenghi says. “The average daily rate we have in Houston is $340, which is really at the top of the market. Austin’s Granduca will be quite similar.”

     

    The Hotel Granduca in Houston is a member of “The Leading Hotels of the World,” a designation sought for the Austin property as well. Borlenghi says the long-range goal is to expand the Granduca brand to other markets in Texas and around the nation.

    The Hotel Granduca Houston is reportedly one of the most profitable hotels in Texas.

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    Photo courtesy of Hotel Granduca
    The Hotel Granduca Houston is reportedly one of the most profitable hotels in Texas.
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    Dallas section of Cotton Belt Trail near DART Silver Line finds funds

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    A trail in the works for north Dallas has received an infusion of cash: The Cotton Belt Trail, located northwest of Dallas and planned as a regional trail corridor, will receive federal funds from the Regional Transportation Council (RTC).

    The trail currently stretches 19.84 miles, stretching between North Richland Hills and Grapevine, with two additional sections in North Richland Hills and Carrollton. There are currently gaps between Grapevine and Carrollton, and another gap between Carrollton and Richardson, across Addison and north Dallas.

    The funding was originally supposed to be funded city by city, says Dallas City Council member Carah Mendelsohn.

    “We were told each city along the Silver Line would have to fund its portion of the trail project, but we worked together to get funding,” Mendelsohn says. “This RTC funding saves the City of Dallas approximately $7 million and helps complete a vision years in the making. We now have funding for the final unfunded segment of the Cotton Belt Trail in District 12, as well as the missing link of the Marni Kaner Trail needed to complete the North Dallas Triangle."

    The North Dallas Triangle is a 4-mile urban trail circuit linking the Preston Ridge, Cotton Belt, and Marni Kaner Trails. When complete, this amenity will provide seamless access, enhanced further by upgrades to Preston Green and Campbell Green Parks, and the new Davenport Trailhead.

    With design already underway and construction beginning next month, this 26-mile trail will follow the path of the Silver Line rail from Plano to DFW Airport, ultimately linking to Tarrant County and extending to Fort Worth.

    The Cotton Belt Trail follows the former St. Louis Southwestern Railway, nicknamed the Cotton Belt Line, which began running in the late 1800s and was discontinued in the 1970s.

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