From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New Carrollton Chameleon
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:47:34 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

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

It had three ballrooms my friend. All of them were separated by airwalls so
in theory it could be made into one vast "U" - shaped ballroom.We used those
ballrooms for Art Show, Film Program and main programming/ evening dances.

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