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| Title | City hotel renovated reopened |
| Subject (LC) | Parliament House Motor Hotel
Hotels--Alabama--Birmingham
Holiday Inn (Birmingham, Ala.)
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| Publisher | Birmingham Post-Herald |
| Contributors | Langston, Tommy |
| Date.Original | 1979-04-26 |
| Type | newspaper clipping |
| Identifier.Citation | Hotels, Motels-Birmingham |
| Collection | Newspaper Vertical File Collection |
| Language | Eng |
| Rights | This material may be protected under Title 17 of the U. S. Copyright Law which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. |
| Place of publication | Birmingham, Ala. |
| Decade | 1971-1980
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| Holding.Institution | Birmingham Public Library (Alabama) |
| Full Text | [photo] By Tommy Langston City hotel renovate , reopened The former Parliament House Hotel , was reopened yesterday as the Holiday 4 Inn 20th Place after a $2 million renovation and sales efforts.The operation features the Third Avenue Revue, a restaurant that offers a decor of the Third Avenue fashion' district of downtown Birmingham's by-gone days. It features storefront decor and photographs of people from Birmingham's past, said Denson Hinton, co-owner of the hotel with Jasper businessman K.L. Jones.Josef Haas, innkeeper and director of operations, said "considerable" banquet business is booked into the next year and convention business has as many as 200 rooms booked on several different occasions. A number of seminars are scheduled in connection with the medical center.Marketing efforts are aimed at promoting seasonal occasions and regular business is expected from receptions, reunions, business meetings and service clubs, he said.Helen McKenzie is director of sales and will work on promotion of the hotel at the national level as well as locally, Haas said.The 237-room hotel was 'purchased several months ago for $4.5 million after a number of changes in owner-ship and eventual transfer of the property into bankruptcy court. Hinton said the design for remodeling came from the Atlanta firm of Design Man- agement, owned in part by Birminghamian Mort Epstein, who created the Third Avenue theme for the restaurant.Mike Fontaine and Marc Conti were general superintendents on construction work, which was done by Hinton's own construction firm.Everything in the building is new, he said, from kitchen equipment to furniture and carpets and draperies.Of the 11 floors, 9 are hotel rooms and the others are lobby, restaurant and banquet rooms. A nightclub will be added, starting in a few weeks, which will seat 250 to 300 people. It will be where a breezeway now exists on the ground floor and en-. close an area formerly used as office 'space and shops.There also are small shops open in the hotel, including barber and beauty shops, a sundry and pipe shop.Rooms will range in rent from $30 a' night to $125 for the Presidential Suite - and restaurant prices will be competitive with other luxury hotel dining rooms in Birmingham, Haas said. |
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