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Article: Companies buy operations from local hotelier hotelier sells 17 properties in virginia, n.c.(Business)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2008
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By Gregory Richards
The Virginian-Pilot
Virginia beach
A company that runs hotels with more than a third of the rooms on the Oceanfront has been sold as one of the city's hotel pioneers exits the business.
Tom Lyons and his Tidewater Hotels & Resorts Inc. helped bring modern, name-brand hotels to an Oceanfront of older, mostly family-owned properties.
Barcelo Crestline Corp. acquired the operations of 17 hotels with nearly 2,400 rooms in Virginia and North Carolina on Thursday from Tidewater Hotels. McLean-based Barcelo Crestline operates other area hotels including The Westin Virginia Beach Town Center.
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