By February 14, 1985, the Granada Royale Hometel will be known as the Embassy Suite Hotel. The hotel was purchased in April 1984 by Embassy Suites, a subsidiary of Holiday Inn.
Construction will begin in November on the $20 million hotel-office complex on the site of the Ramada Inn, according to John Kirkpatrick, the developer. He expects that the hotel and one office building will be completed before the 1984 Olympics. The new hotel will be first class with a well-known name.
Two hotels are being proposed for redevelopment property along Huntington Drive in Arcadia, potentially creating a "hotel row" between East Arcadia and West Monrovia.
A statue to honor Anita M. Baldwin, daughter of Arcadia's founder Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin, will be built at the new Le Meridien Hotel, a luxury hotel in Arcadia. The artist/sculptor is Alfred Paredes, who also created the Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin statue.
Monrovia's Aztec Hotel is showcasing fine art in its non-profit Aztec Art Center Route 66 Gallery. Visitors are not just from Monrovia, but from Pasadena, Duarte and Arcadia. A painting by Manuel Barillas is pictured. The hotel is owned by Kathie Reece-McNeill. The hotel was designed in 1925 by English architect Robert Stacy-Judd and was inspired by Mayan and Aztect structures. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.
The addition of a new hotel on the corner of Second Avenue and Santa Clara Street in Arcadia would bring an additional 159 rooms to an area which already boasts eight hotels along a one mile stretch of the Huntington Drive corridor.
Council has voted 3-2 in favor of the disposition and development agreement with Hometel Development Corporation to construct a 150 suite Granada Royale Hometel. The hotel is considered the key to redevelopment of the area. Office buildings proposed for the surrounding area want hotels.
A six-story Hilton Garden Inn could be the ninth hotel to come to the Huntington Drive corridor if plans announced by an Orange County-based developer are successful.
A public hearing on the proposed hotel at Huntington Drive and Second Avenue is scheduled for December 16. Article outlines the financial details of the project and the thoughts of the various councilmen on the idea.
On January 22, 1999, ground was broken for construction of a 124 room Hilton Garden Inn and an 84 room Marriott SpringHill Suites along Arcadia's hotel-row