Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale - 17th Street, 1100 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale - 17th Street opened in 1986 with room rates starting at $75. The developer/owner
Robert E. Woolley (Landmark Hotels of San Mateo, CA) also built the Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale North (the junction of Interstate 95 and Cypress Creek Road) at the same time. Both hotels featured soaring atrium lobbies surrounded by two-room suites dressed up in a salmon-colored Mediterranean-style interiors. The 363-suite 17th Street hotel included 16,000 square feet of meeting space and cost $38 million.
Ed Walls served as the opening general manager of the Embassy Suites 17th Street hotel. Walls is currently the general manager at the 998-room Diplomat Resort & Spa Hollywood (formerly the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa).
In 1991 Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale - 17th Street lost its affiliation with the Embassy Suites chain. At the time Dallas-based Embassy Suites said it reached a settlement in disputes with franchisees Robert E. Woolley and Charles M.
Sweeney. As a result of the agreement the hotel was branded Crown Sterling Suites. In 1996 Woolley sold the hotel to
FelCor Lodging Trust. Tom Corcoran co-founded FelCor, Inc. in 1991 with Hervey Feldman. Feldman was founding president of Embassy Suites from 1983 to 1990. Felcor branded the hotel once again as an Embassy Suites in 1996 - and continues today under the ownership and management of Felcor. The Embassy Suites Ft. Lauderdale along with 4 other Felcor owned Embassy Suites is encumbered with a $160.8 million mortgage loan at a fixed interest rate of 4.95% maturing in 2022. The other Felcor hotels are the Embassy suites in Napa Valley, Deerfield Beach, Minneapolis and Birmingham.
Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale - 17th Street, 1100 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale - 17th Street opened in 1986 with room rates starting at $75. The developer/owner
Robert E. Woolley (Landmark Hotels of San Mateo, CA) also built the Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale North (the junction of Interstate 95 and Cypress Creek Road) at the same time. Both hotels featured soaring atrium lobbies surrounded by two-room suites dressed up in a salmon-colored Mediterranean-style interiors. The 363-suite 17th Street hotel included 16,000 square feet of meeting space and cost $38 million.
Ed Walls served as the opening general manager of the Embassy Suites 17th Street hotel. Walls is currently the general manager at the 998-room Diplomat Resort & Spa Hollywood (formerly the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa).
In 1991 Embassy Suites Fort Lauderdale - 17th Street lost its affiliation with the Embassy Suites chain. At the time Dallas-based Embassy Suites said it reached a settlement in disputes with franchisees Robert E. Woolley and Charles M.
Sweeney. As a result of the agreement the hotel was branded Crown Sterling Suites. In 1996 Woolley sold the hotel to
FelCor Lodging Trust. Tom Corcoran co-founded FelCor, Inc. in 1991 with Hervey Feldman. Feldman was founding president of Embassy Suites from 1983 to 1990. Felcor branded the hotel once again as an Embassy Suites in 1996 - and continues today under the ownership and management of Felcor. The Embassy Suites Ft. Lauderdale along with 4 other Felcor owned Embassy Suites is encumbered with a $160.8 million mortgage loan at a fixed interest rate of 4.95% maturing in 2022. The other Felcor hotels are the Embassy suites in Napa Valley, Deerfield Beach, Minneapolis and Birmingham.