Ace Hotel#Locations

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In 1999, the first Ace Hotel was opened. Friends Alex Calderwood, Wade Weigel, and Doug Herrick purchased and transformed a Seattle halfway house into an affordable hotel that would appeal to the creative class. Calderwood and Weigel had previously founded Rudy's, a reinvigorated traditional barbershop concept they started in Seattle, which eventually expanded to more than a dozen locations, along with an experiential marketing company known as Neverstop, and an audiovisual arts platform known as ARO.Space with Pearl Jam co-founder Stone Gossard and Kung Faux creator Mic Neumann, who is credited for bringing in such artists as Kaws and Shepard Fairey to decorate the walls of various Rudy's and Ace Hotel locations.[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/fashion/30ACE.html "The Man Behind The Ace Empire"] by Matt Gross, The New York Times, January 8th, 2011.

In 2006, the group opened a second hotel in Portland, Oregon followed by properties in Palm Springs, California and New York City in 2009.{{cite news |title=Sunday CEO: Alex Calderwood, Ace Hotel & Swim Club |url=http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090201/BUSINESS01/902010303/-1/newsfront |newspaper=The Desert Sun |date=February 1, 2009 |access-date=March 4, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090311052220/http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090201/BUSINESS01/902010303/-1/newsfront| archive-date= 11 March 2009 | url-status= live}}

In 2013, an Ace Hotel opened in the Shoreditch neighborhood of London,{{Cite web | url=http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/5570/first-look-ace-hotel-london-shoreditch | title=First Look: Ace Hotel London Shoreditch · HUH. | access-date=June 22, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222424/http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/5570/first-look-ace-hotel-london-shoreditch | archive-date=March 3, 2016 | url-status=dead }} where Calderwood had defined a goal of opening a new Ace Hotel every "one to two years", before his untimely death at age 47 on November 16, 2013.{{ cite web |title= Alex Calderwood, Creator and Face of the Unconventional Ace Hotel Chain, Dies at 47|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/nyregion/alex-calderwood-creator-and-face-of-the-unconventional-ace-hotel-chain-dies-at-47.html?_r=0 |work=The New York Times |date=November 15, 2013 }}

In 2014, a downtown Los Angeles location of the Ace Hotel opened in a former theatre, followed by Ace Hotel locations in Pittsburgh in 2015, New Orleans in 2016, and Chicago in 2017.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In 2020, an Ace Hotel location opened in Kyoto, Japan that was designed by Kengo Kuma.{{Cite news|url=https://www.designboom.com/design/kengo-kuma-ace-hotel-japan-kyoto-03-09-2018/|title=Kengo Kuma to Design Ace Hotel's First Japanese Location|date=2018-04-09|work=designboom {{!}} architecture & design magazine|access-date=2018-04-10|language=en-US}} In September 2020, it was announced that Ace Hotel London Shoreditch would not reopen after being closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.{{Cite web|last=Gibson|first=Eleanor|date=2020-09-12|title=Ace Hotel closes London branch permanently|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/12/ace-hotel-shoreditch-closes-permanently/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-30|website=Dezeen|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912104858/https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/12/ace-hotel-shoreditch-closes-permanently/ |archive-date=2020-09-12 }}

In 2021, Ace Hotel opened locations in Brooklyn, New York; Toronto, Canada and Sydney, Australia.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In 2024 Ace is poised to open a hotel on the Athens Riviera in Greece.

According to Calderwood, the style and furnishing of each Ace property is designed to reflect its location, with an eye towards re-imagining properties that are "challenged."Torline, Monica. "Aces high on pop culture",

The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, 1 October 2009.

• Ace Hotel Athens
• Ace Hotel Brooklyn
• Ace Hotel Kyoto opened on June 11, 2020, in a building originally designed by Tetsuro Yoshida for the Kyoto Central Telephone Company in 1926. The registered Taishō era property was redesigned by Kengo Kuma.{{cite news |last1=Wilson |first1=Fiona |title=Ace Hotel builds on a Kyoto legacy |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/Ace-Hotel-builds-on-a-Kyoto-legacy |work=Monocle |publisher=Nikkei Asia |date=14 August 2020}}{{cite web |title=Kyoto "SHIN-PUH-KAN Redevelopment Project" Hotel Branding Announced |url=https://www.nttud.co.jp/english/news/detail/id/n22767.html |website=NTT Urban Development |date=6 April 2018}}
• Ace Hotel New York worked with Roman and Williams{{ cite web|title=Style & Substance |url=http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20090722/style-substance |access-date=2011-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110731050341/http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20090722/style-substance |archive-date=2011-07-31 |work=Metropolis |date=22 July 2009 }} to redesign the former Hotel Breslin, a 1904 building in Midtown Manhattan. This location features a Stumptown Coffee and Chef April Bloomfield's{{ cite web |title=The Breslin's Little Britain |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-01-12/restaurants/the-breslin-s-little-britain/ |work=Villagevoice.com |date=January 12, 2010 }} Michelin-starred The Breslin{{ cite web |title=Diet Someplace Else |url=http://nymag.com/restaurants/reviews/63213/ |work=Nymag.com |date=January 24, 2010 }} restaurant.
• Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, CA is a converted Howard Johnson motel, formerly a Westward Ho. King's Highway, the hotel's on-site diner, is a converted Denny's. There are two bars, the Amigo Room, and poolside, the Short Bus. The remodel was a collaboration with L.A.-based design firm, Commune.
• Ace Hotel Seattle is a former Salvation Army halfway house located in the Belltown neighborhood.
• Ace Hotel Sydney
• Ace Hotel Toronto opened July 2022. The first Canadian site for the Ace Hotel, the property is notable as their first original build.{{cite web|url=https://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/ace-hotel-toronto.15474|title=Ace Hotel Toronto|access-date=18 December 2022|website=urbantoronto.ca}}

Former locations:

• The American Trade Hotel is a restored five-story stucco building in the Casco Viejo historical district of Panama City.{{cite magazine |title=Panama City Gets a Facelift and an Ace Hotel |url=http://www.wmagazine.com/culture/travel/2013/11/panama-city-ace-hotel/photos/ |magazine=W (magazine) |date=November 6, 2013 }} It was associated with Ace Hotels for a number of years after its opening.
• Ace Hotel Chicago Closed in 2021.
• Ace Hotel London was in London's Shoreditch arts district, on the site of the original Shoreditch Empire music hall.{{cite magazine |title=Theatre-inspired interiors for Ace Hotel Shoreditch |url=http://www.designweek.co.uk/news/theatre-inspired-interiors-for-ace-hotel-shoreditch/3037168.article |magazine=Design Week |date=September 10, 2013 }} The groups first location outside of the US, Ace Hotel London Shoreditch closed in September 2020.
• Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles opened in January 2014 in the historic United Artists Building, with 180 rooms and a restored United Artists Theater performance venue. Closed in 2024.
• Ace Hotel New Orleans opened in March 2016 in a 1928 Art Deco building in New Orleans' Warehouse District.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/t-magazine/travel/ace-hotel-new-orleans.html|title=A Cult Hotel Opens in New Orleans|first=Sara Ruffin|last=Costello|date=22 March 2016|access-date=18 December 2018|website=The New York Times}} Closed in 2024.
• Ace Hotel Pittsburgh opened in an historic YMCA building in the city's East Liberty neighborhood in December 2015, and closed in 2021.
• Ace Hotel Portland occupies the former Clyde Hotel in downtown Portland. In its former incarnation, the hotel's lobby served as the setting for a scene from the film Drugstore Cowboy. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{cite news |title=Ace's Sense of Place |url=http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=118022398070110000 |newspaper=Portland Tribune |date=May 29, 2007 |access-date=March 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331125632/http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=118022398070110000 |archive-date=March 31, 2012 |url-status=dead }} Closed in 2024.

The 2011 episode "Blunderbuss" of the sketch comedy series Portlandia had a sketch set at the "Deuce Hotel", where the obnoxiously hip staff hand out complimentary turntables and typewriters to all guests;[https://www.avclub.com/portlandia-blunderbuss-1798167361 "Blunderbuss" review], The A.V. Club, February 18, 2011 it was a parody specifically of Ace Hotel Portland.[http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/blogs/culturephile-portland-arts/portlandia-flyer-wars-deuce-hotel-march-2011/ Portlandia: Over | Flyer Wars | Deuce Hotel], Anne Adams, Portland Monthly Culturephile blog, March 1, 2011

On her song Ace, rapper Noname talks about being at Ace Hotel in London.{{Citation|title=Noname (Ft. Saba & Smino) – Ace|url=https://genius.com/Noname-ace-lyrics|language=en|access-date=2019-05-06}}

Bon Iver makes a reference to the Ace Hotel Los Angeles in the song "33 "GOD"" on the album 22, A Million.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

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