Archive for September 26th, 2012

Hyatt in Dearborn to Become Radisson Hotel

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Dearborn’s Hyatt Hotel will soon become the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center.

Dearborn’s Hyatt Hotel will now become the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center.

The hotel will open as a Radisson at the end of October, according to the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, based in Minneapolis and Brussels, Belgium.

This is good news for Dearborn in that the Hyatt will remain a hotel. However, the Radisson brand is a upper, middle market chain that doesn’t carry the cache that the Hyatt or Ritz brand did when those two operated in Dearborn. Even so, Radisson does run a good hotel.

Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group announced Tuesday that it has signed a long-term agreement to manage the 772-room hotel, located in the Fairlane Town Center retail complex in Dearborn.

Hyatt announced in May that it would no longer manage the hotel after its current contract expires Oct. 31. Royal Realties, a group of international investors, acquired the hotel in April 2011.

The Radisson does operate one other hotel in metro Detroit and that is in Bloomfield Hills.

It isn’t known yet when the major renovations will be completed at the former Hyatt hotel.