This popped up in my newsfeed today, and made me immediately think of the Waterloo Hotel:
"Virgin Hotels eyes Austin for its next swanky location
A luxury hotel brand launched by Sir Richard Branson — the billionaire brainchild behind the Virgin empire of ventures in travel, entertainment, communications, and retail — might be landing in Austin.
Virgin Hotels has an opened property in Chicago and has properties in the pipeline for Dallas; Nashville, Tennessee; Palm Springs, California; and New York. Beyond that, Austin sits on Virgin Hotels’ short list of expansion targets along with Bogota, Colombia; Boston; London; Los Angeles; Madrid; Miami; Paris; San Francisco; Sao Paulo; Seattle; and Washington, according to company press releases and marketing materials.
In Austin and other wish-list markets, Virgin Hotels says it’s looking at ground-up developments, acquisitions of existing properties, partnerships with current owners, and third-party management deals."
Weird -- there's no other news on the web about an Austin location, and the blog post from Culturemap is really just a teaser. There's no real info at all. So . . . why run it?
http://austin.culturemap.com/news/tr...stin-location/