Downtown Dayton hotel closes

Credit: DaytonDailyNews

The Dayton Grand Hotel, located downtown at Third and Ludlow streets, has closed as it undergoes renovations, an acting general manager told this media outlet today.

The 184-room hotel, which is owned by investment equity firm Hotel Capital based in Indianapolis, will be closed until at least May as it undergoes the renovation.

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The acting general manager could not give an exact opening date and would not say what renovations the 120-year-old hotel will undergo.

In 2015, hotel officials announced they were undergoing $3 million to $5 million in renovations to all of its rooms and plans to rebuild its swimming pool, re-open its restaurant and convert to a Double Tree by Hilton.

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The hotel did not convert to a Double Tree by Hilton and has struggled as a private hotel.

The Dayton Grand Hotel originally became a Double Tree hotel in 2013. The shift was short-lived, with the owners returning it to a private hotel, and business suffered, Eric Minshall, the general manager in 2015, told the Dayton Daily New.

“In an eight-month stretch after going back to being independent, the hotel lost 80 percent of its business,” Minshall said.

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