Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:52:48 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] New Carrollton Chameleon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

I noticed that on the Wikipedia page for Disclave, where it says

   Disclave was in the same hotel in New Carrollton from 1984 through
   1991 and again in 1997.  This hotel was called the New Carrollton
   Sheraton in 1984, The Sheraton Inn in 1985, The Sheraton Washington
   Northeast in 1986 and 1987, the Howard Johnson New Carrollton in
   1988 and 1989, the Sheraton Greenbelt in 1990 and 1991, and the
   Ramada Inn Conference and Exhibition Center in 1997.  As of 2006,
   its name is New Carrollton Hotel.

someone appended

  The hotel will be converted to a Four Points by Sheraton in 2007.

I was able to confirm this at
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/07/24/story2.html
where it says

  Parvez Ahmed, vice president and COO of American Hospitality
  Management, plans to update the New Carrollton Hotel near the
  Beltway with more shopping and office space.

  Elvis slept here in 1971.  And, just like that famous guest, the
  owners of a hotel in New Carrollton are all shook up over a new
  love: the site's $75 million redevelopment.

   Work should start in September [2006] on an overhaul of the New
   Carrollton Hotel on Route 450 just inside the Beltway.  It will
   become a Sheraton Four Points surrounded by new retail, office
   condominiums and about 100 residential units.

   . . .

   The hotel's upgrades will include a Stonefish Grill restaurant
   in part of the Ramada's old ballroom.

It had a ballroom?  Do they mean the converted parking garage?

The person who edited the Wikipedia page is "Scottydoo33."  He (?)
apparently mostly edits pages that involve hotels or restaurants.