Ace Hotel Group: From economy to extravagant | hotelnewsnow.com

The U.S. hotel industry has lost more than just rate premiums, according to Alex Calderwood. It’s lost a sense of personality as well. Calderwood should know something about individualism personified in brick and mortar. He, along with his fellow co-founders, started Ace Hotel Group, which manages and partly owns a four-property portfolio of boutique hotels that is brimming with as much character as a big-budget acting ensemble.