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Renovation of the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia

The HVScompass Assignment
HVScompass was retained to provide Interior Design services for the renovation of the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Challenges
This project presented a number of challenges for HVScompass' design team:

• Create a new guestroom scheme that would work with a large number of room types: The Crowne Plaza had an unusually large number of room types (rooms with different configurations), which required careful planning to be sure that all of the furniture and finish selections would fit within each room.
  
  
• Create a new look for the hotel while re-using some of the existing elements: The concierge-level rooms were not up for renovation at this time; however, rooms at this level of service should always have the newest furnishings. HVScompass was challenged to select new furniture for these rooms that would coordinate with the existing finishes, and move the concierge-level furniture into some of the lower level guestrooms.
  
  
• Find a liquidator willing to provide the detailed level of service required in this renovation: Unlike many hotel renovations, not all of the FF&E from this hotel was liquidated. HVScompass needed to find a liquidator who would be willing to carefully inventory what was being liquidated versus what would stay in the hotel.

The Solutions
HVScompass provided a very detailed initial survey of the property to address all of these design challenges. The team entered each individual guestroom to take detailed measurements of all the features so that each room type could be documented on the Interior Design drawings. Within the 495 total guestrooms in the hotel, HVScompass found over 50 different types of guestrooms, each type requiring a unique furniture layout and placement of finishes. HVScompass created an interior design package that would work for all of the room types and documented the finish and furniture placement for each room on the renovation drawings.

To address the challenge of re-furnishing the concierge-level suites without renovating, the designers walked the property with the Client during the initial survey. This allowed the Client to hand-pick which case pieces from the concierge-level rooms should be saved and which should be moved to the lower-level guestrooms. With the notes from this walk-through, HVScompass created a detailed inventory of the hotel’s FF&E items: which items should be liquidated, which items would be moved to other areas, and which items would remain in-place. HVScompass then selected new furniture for the concierge-level rooms that would work with the existing finishes and created new FF&E packages for the lower-level rooms that would coordinate with the case pieces that were being moved from the concierge level.

With such a detailed FF&E inventory and a complicated scheme for moving and liquidating the existing FF&E, finding a Liquidation company willing to work on this project presented its own challenge. Many Liquidators turned down the job point blank! HVScompass assisted the Construction Project Manager in negotiating with a number of FF&E Liquidators in order to find a company willing to take on this intricate project. Once the Liquidator was on board, HVScompass coordinated with the Project Manager, helping to ensure that the correct case pieces were either liquidated, kept, or moved to different guestrooms.

The Results
Renovations at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia are nearly complete, and have been well-received by the Client and guests alike. Since this hotel remained open during renovation, many guests have been able to stay in the newly-renovated guestrooms after their completion.

Photo of a guestroom before renovation

The hotel's existing guestrooms were due for a renovation.

Photo of a guestroom after renovation

The renovated guestrooms contain casegoods from the concierge-level rooms, and have received all new finishes. The result is a beautifully redesigned guestroom.