Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • Page 13
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS TMM, FiWuy 1W7 7-A BUSINESS OUTLOOK By A. LIVINGSTON Philadelphians Suddenly Find New Hotel in Midst; Sheraton Goes All Out PHILADELPHIA, Uucti publicity. When you say, no biiness like btziMM, you're wrong. You'd admit you are wrong, too, if you'd been with Perle Mesta, George Jeiwl, Zsa Gabor, Gov. Robert Meyner tt N.
Sen. Clinton Anderson of New Mexico, Wharton School protwiori, the Andrews Sisters, pretty models, and assorted Philadelphia bankers, industrialists, retailers, and representatives of the Chamber of Com- merce when Mayor Richardson Dilworth snipped the ribbon to formally open first big rooming home shice the hotel Sheraton. This three-day extravaganza set the Sheraton Corp. back $150,000, according to Robert L. Moore, chairman, and Ernest Henderson, president.
The tab included the price of a chartered plane which brought in atari from Hollywood: tranaportaUon tor newapaper and writers, TV and radio TV time pur- guests, fees for entertainment; and tost of not using the hotel for paying customers. purpose all of this. new hotel hu to fet its name around Otherwise, out-of-towners will atk for the old Philadelphia the Bellevue-StraWord, Warwick, Barclay, Benjamin Franklin, John Bartram, Sjilranla, and to on. Hence, the accent Some travelers always want the atest. This adds a dollar a night to the price of lodging, according to Moore.
On 930 rooms, that Deans nearly a thousand dollars extra per day, or some $300,900 a year, assuming full occupancy, is a big assumption. Philadelphia hotel occupancy slipped torn per cent to 66 per cent i 1956. Good bet: Occupancy will drop further. But the Sheraton also will increase Philadelphia's hotel bust ness. Sheraton bookings for the next five' years for conventions amount to $5,000,000.
Some of that would have gone to other hotels But some wouldn't have come to Philadelphia without the Sheraton Now, Philadelphia can offer plenty of first class rooms. The building of the Sheraton has roused other Philadelphia hotels, i'he Bellevue and the Warwick have seen rearranged and refurbished. The cuisine of all hotels has smart- jartner and co-foimrter with myscltji the company, were in studies at Harvard College In Han. We also per- ormed awvke in World War First; i and wits our veterans' rewards, combination, we commenced ourselves into various neises, ene of which the World Radio a network of radio shops, became highly successful. Then mdertook real-estate." To Henderson and Moore, the ho- el business is an inflation hedge.
Their first venture was the Hotel Continental in Cambridge in 1934. 1'hey now have 45 in the U. S.i, and Canada. The Philadelphia Sheraton is the first they've built. The others were bought as going hotels Another is under construe- ion In Dallas.
Henderson figures Sheraton Corp. sales at a year. Total assets are carried at aoo.OOO. Estimated market value, (290,000,000. Earnings are put at about $1.25 a share from opera- Jons.
Because of accelerated preciation, the cash flow is a share. To finance a hotel property. corporation gels up a separate company, The Sheraton Louisiana The Sheraton Mayflower the Philadelphia aton Corp. In Philadelphia, a sachusetts insurance company took a first mortgage of $6,000.000 supplemented by $3,000,800 in debentures. A group of Phibddphia banks has promised a $2.500,000 term loan, guaranteed by the parent company.
The Sheraton Corp. will put in the equity. 13,500,000 to M.500,000, lo cover the rest of the cost. When all the bills for land, construction, furnishings, and promotional efforts are in. the tote will be between $15,000.000 and $16,000,000.
tnssed; free wining and dining of ene up. Waiters are more alert, Bright fellow, he, who said, "Com petition's the life of trade." Since Boston, the home base of the Sheraton and Philadel phia are colonial cities, a colonial motif dominated the opening, colonial style newspaper interviewed Moore, aa follows: How was your beginnings in the hostelry business? prnest Henderson, my Shop Lifters' Law AUSTIN. March 8 Wl Shop lifters may find their "work" tougher if a bHl introduced by Sen. Ottis Lock of Lufkin is passed. It would allow owners or employes in a retail store to hold anyone "for a reasonable period of time," if the person is suspected of shop-lifting.
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