Ace Hotels Has Lost Their Visionary, Alex Calderwood | hotelchatter.com

Shocking, stunning and sad. Alex Calderwood, the man who founded Ace Hotels, passed away yesterday. He was 47. Calderwood started Ace Hotels in Seattle back in 1999 and went onto to open more locations in Portland, Palm Springs and New York. But it was the NYC hotel that really made the hotel industry take notice of this hipster hotel brand. The Ace NYC has multiple retail shops, the hot Breslin restaurant and Stumptown coffee, along with a...