Stephane Lacroix has been appointed General Manager at Downtown LA Proper Hotel in Los Angeles
Lacroix boasts over twenty years of hospitality experience encompassing food and beverage operations and hotel openings and joins the team as General Manager of Downtown LA Proper Hotel. The hotel is situated in a landmark, Curlett & Beelman designed 1926 red-brick building at 11th and Broadway, just a few blocks away from the iconic Orpheum Theatre. It will feature 148 guest rooms, two restaurants, bars, two unique presidential suites (a Pool Suite and a Basketball Court Suite) as well as a rooftop with restaurant, bar and swimming pool. Driving local flavors to the hotel, the team appointed Caroline Styne and Suzanne Goin, the legendary James Beard Award-winning L.A. restaurateurs known for a.o.c., Lucques, Tavern, and The Larder, who will oversee all Food & Beverage offerings at the hotel.
Most recently, Lacroix was Executive Assistant Manager at the Forbes Travel Guide Five-star rated Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, where he oversaw all food & beverage operations as an integral part of the hotel's opening team for their first West Coast property. Previously, he has held positions at Baccarat Hotel in New York City, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air, The New York Palace, The Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco, The Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, the Hotel de Paris in Monte-Carlo, the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. and the Ritz in Paris. Lacroix has contributed to multiple Food & Wine Events with Gourmet Magazine and appeared on the Independent Lodging Congress panel at its fourth annual gathering of the industry's leading hospitality professionals in NYC.
