“We’re excited to have Fairmont on board,” said Ted Eldredge, president of Manchester Financial Group. “There hasn’t been a new hotel built on the waterfront since the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. Fairmont is a good operator and they’ve done well in Austin with our hotel there. For the most part, they’re a resort operator, so it’s fun that they’re also doing a good job on these big box hotels.”
“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work again with our partners at Manchester Financial Group to bring another landmark property to life,” Mark Willis, CEO of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts said in a statement. “Opening as our largest-to-date Fairmont in the US, this project represents an incredible opportunity to bring the signature luxury experience for which Fairmont is known around the globe, on an unprecedented scale and magnitude to downtown San Diego.
Pity that the architecture is so anodyne.