Salamander Resorts & Resorts, the luxurious resort firm based by famend enterprise chief Sheila Johnson, together with Henderson Park, a world personal fairness actual property supervisor headquartered in London, yesterday launched Salamander Washington DC, bringing Salamander’s welcoming and various type of luxurious hospitality to the guts of the nation’s capital for the primary time.
The 2 corporations just lately partnered to buy and re-brand the 373-room property, which beforehand operated as a Mandarin Oriental. Underneath new possession and Salamander’s administration, the resort will bear an thrilling, all-encompassing enhancement program that will probably be fastidiously executed in order to not interrupt enterprise. Program highlights embrace a renovation of the resort’s suites together with the three-bedroom Presidential Suite with sweeping views of the Potomac River, the transforming and reopening of the membership lounge, re-concepting and redesign of its signature restaurant and grand foyer lounge, and activation of the resort’s distinctive out of doors areas which overlook DC’s waterfront.
In a glamorous, celebratory occasion held yesterday within the property’s Grand Ballroom, a gathering of 300 regional tastemakers and VIP listened to remarks Johnson, Salamander Resorts and Resorts’ President Prem Devadas, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Washington Commanders President Jason Wright.
Prominently positioned alongside the capital’s vibrant Southwest waterfront, Salamander Washington DC is a brief stroll from the nation’s most cherished monuments and the thrilling sights and eating places within the new District Wharf. The elegant resort options fantastically designed rooms, spacious suites, Washington, DC’s most interesting spa, and among the metropolis’s largest assembly and occasion areas.
Salamander’s inclusive type of luxurious has grow to be a defining method to hospitality and the corporate is famend within the area for its Forbes 5-Star rated Salamander Resort & Spa in Middleburg, VA, simply an hour away from downtown DC Salamander is already growing synergies between the 2 properties for the advantage of its many visitor loyalists, together with particular ‘City and Nation’ packages. Salamander Washington DC joins the corporate’s distinctive assortment of iconic properties in storied locations, together with Charleston, Aspen, Tampa Bay, Jamaica and Anguilla.
Johnson is a trailblazer whose enterprise ventures have touched virtually each part of Washington DC for 50 years. Earlier than coming into hospitality, she co-founded Black Leisure Tv (BET), and is presently Vice Chairman of Monumental Sports activities & Leisure, which owns the NBA’s Washington Wizards, the NHL’s Washington Capitals, and the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, for which she serves as President and Managing Companions. Moreover, she has grow to be a voice for the hospitality business, serving on each the Government Committee for the American Resort & Lodging Affiliation and the Forbes Journey Information Technique Committee. She is presently Co-Chair of the Better Washington Partnership’s Inclusive Progress Council, bringing collectively enterprise leaders to make the Capital Area a nationwide mannequin for advancing financial options.
Full particulars of the resort’s enchancment program will probably be finalized and introduced within the coming weeks, and on the conclusion, the resort will make use of roughly 100 further staff members. Among the signature initiatives embrace a glamorous transformation of the resort’s beautiful rotunda foyer, and the re-programming and re-naming of the foyer bar as an inviting, group house. The resort may also activate its Grand Garden, an area that’s handed amongst Washington, DC motels, with programming for leisure and company teams alike.
Salamander Washington DC’s signature restaurant (presently open just for breakfast) will probably be revitalized, and the resort is working with a famous chef to reposition the restaurant with a projected springtime opening. A patisserie may also be added on the primary degree for grab-and-go gadgets that includes freshly baked gadgets from the property’s pastry store. The spa, already thought of the best within the metropolis, will grow to be a Salamander Spa – a model identified for its Forbes 5-Star score in Middleburg.
Moreover, the spa will bear an enlargement to incorporate extra remedy rooms and a street-level entrance. Each visitor room will obtain new, regionally impressed art work, together with images personally taken by Johnson, whereas all suites will obtain an entire refurbishment. Moreover, the membership lounge, which has been closed because the begin of the pandemic, will probably be renovated and reopened because the Monument Membership.
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Salamander Washington DC
1330 Maryland Ave SW
Washington, DC 20024
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