News & Press
The Ritz-Carlton name has always been newsworthy, and never more so than with the introduction of The Ritz-Carlton Residences on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile:
Ritz-Carlton receives highest ranking in luxury category
by J.D. Power and Associates
July 28, 2010
RITZ-CARLTON is the best luxury hotelier in America. So says the 14th annual hotel survey by J.D. Power and Associates, which collected the responses of some 53,000 guests who had stayed in an American hotel between May 2009 and June 2010.
Ritz-Carlton managed maximum scores in all seven categories in which properties were assessed (reservations; check-in/check-out; guest room; food and beverage; hotel services; hotel facilities; and costs and fees) to reclaim the top spot it had lost to Four Seasons last year.
Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen Girozentrale (Helaba)
Helaba with a marked profit rise in the first half of 2009
August 13, 2009
Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba) ended the first six months of fiscal 2009 on the basis of the semi-annual accounts with an IFRS group pre-tax profit of EUR 273 million. This represents an increase of EUR 153 million compared with the same period of the year before.
THE ROBB REPORT
Experience Luxury - Chicago
June 2009
Furthering the trend, The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Chicago, promises to set a new standard for luxury home ownership in the heart of Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.” The new landmark building with its Parisian-style architecture will not only transform the skyline of Michigan Avenue’s toniest district, but it will inject an elite level of service into what promises to become one of the city’s most desirable addresses.
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
Putting Up The Ritz
April 2009
Under Construction at 664 North Michigan Avenue, the former site of the Terra Museum of American Art, The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton give every indication that they will be, well, ritzy. Flying buttresses, carved panels, and a crown of lighted art glass will adorn the exterior of the 40-story building, which was designed by the architect Lucien Lagrange with an eye toward the art modern look of the 1930s.
