Revenge Of The Hotel King

Barry Sternlicht revolutionized the hotel world as he built Starwood into an $12.4 billion empire. Now he has to prove himself again. But will he ever satisfy his harshest critic?

Barry Sternlicht’s chauffeur-driven black G.M.C. Yukon rolls up to a crumbling brick building on the wrong side of the Stamford, Connecticut, train tracks. It’s a warm fall morning, and a nearby field of dumpsters casts a rank smell over the block. The site was a heavily used auditorium and dental clinic for workers at the Yale & Towne lock factory.