Fairmont Miramar Hotel Santa Monica

The former Miramar Sheraton Hotel in Santa Monica will now be managed as part of the Fairmont Hotels & Resorts chain. The hotel will be known as the Fairmont Miramar Hotel Santa Monica. The change comes a few weeks after Maritz, Wolff & Co., a Los Angeles-based investment firm, purchased the 302-room property at Wilshire Boulevard and Ocean Avenue for about $90.6 million from an affiliate of Japan's Fujita Corp.

One of Southern California's oldest resorts, the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, is expected to be sold for about $210 million and undergo a further upgrade amid rising demand for high-end hotel rooms on the Westside. The price for the ocean-view hotel where U.S. presidents played and actress Greta Garbo went to be alone would be among the highest in California on a per-room basis at almost $700,000.

One of Southern California's oldest resorts, the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica, is expected to be sold for about $210 million and undergo a further upgrade amid rising demand for high-end hotel rooms on the Westside. The price for the ocean-view hotel where U.S. presidents played and actress Greta Garbo went to be alone would be among the highest in California on a per-room basis at almost $700,000.

Owners of the Fairmont Miramar, the city's only unionized hotel, signed a new contract with 240 workers Wednesday and increased their pay and benefits by 25% over five years, negotiators announced. The agreement ends five months of talks with the hotel's new owner, after five years of wrangling with the hotel's previous owner, Sheraton. Representatives for both the union and the hotel's new owner--Maritz, Wolff and Co.

Owners of the Fairmont Miramar, the city's only unionized hotel, signed a new contract with 240 workers Wednesday and increased their pay and benefits by 25% over five years, negotiators announced. The agreement ends five months of talks with the hotel's new owner, after five years of wrangling with the hotel's previous owner, Sheraton. Representatives for both the union and the hotel's new owner--Maritz, Wolff and Co.

The Westside Urban Forum will honor Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg at its annual Westside Prize luncheon on June 15. The association of business, government and community leaders from the Westside of Los Angeles selected Goldberg to receive its Westside Prize for her role in the revitalization of Hollywood, which is in her district.

Timothy Clement has been appointed principal in charge of interior design at WWCOT, a Santa Monica-based architecture and interior design firm. Clement had been a principal at his own firm. * North Hollywood-based IPC Inc., a so-called hospitalist firm that works with physicians to manage patients' hospital care, has created a consulting division and has named Jay Arnold as the executive director in charge of the unit.

The Peninsula Beverly Hills and the Fairmont Miramar Hotel Santa Monica are the L.A. area hotels that made Orbitz's 2012 Best in Stay list of top places to stay worldwide. The online travel company culled 200,000 hotel reviews and polled some travel experts to create the list that ranks the best hotels in 75 destinations. Winners in the West include the Argonaut in San Francisco, the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, Rancho Las Palmas Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage  and the Governor Hotel in Portland, Ore. The Four Seasons in Vail, Colo., was dubbed the best ski hotel, and Banyan Tree Mayakoba in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, most romantic.

Every great room needs a great soundtrack. That's particularly true of the rooms created by night-life impresario, music lover and DJ Brent Bolthouse. If his newest beachside lounge, the Bungalow, could sing it would sound like 1960s superstar Donovan. Positioned on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Ocean Avenue, with gauzy views of the glimmering Pacific Ocean, the song it would sing would be "Sunshine Superman. " "There's such a great connection between music and the sea," says Bolthouse on a recent afternoon, standing on the Bungalow's expansive wooden deck, staring west.

An affiliate of Fujita Corp. USA has sold a three-story office building in El Segundo, one of the Japanese company's last U.S. holdings, to RREEF America, a German-owned commercial real estate investment advisor. The three-story, 200,000-square-foot property at 101 N. Sepulveda Blvd., primarily occupied by administrative offices of FedEx Corp., sold for $28.7 million. Fujita Corp., a century-old publicly traded construction company based in Tokyo, created a U.S.

The former Miramar Sheraton Hotel in Santa Monica will now be managed as part of the Fairmont Hotels & Resorts chain. The hotel will be known as the Fairmont Miramar Hotel Santa Monica. The change comes a few weeks after Maritz, Wolff & Co., a Los Angeles-based investment firm, purchased the 302-room property at Wilshire Boulevard and Ocean Avenue for about $90.6 million from an affiliate of Japan's Fujita Corp.

Complaining of low wages and severe workloads, housekeepers and other employees at five area hotels authorized their union on Friday to call a strike. The hotels include two downtown Los Angeles area establishments -- The Wilshire Plaza and the Holiday Inn -- as well as the Sportsmen's Lodge in Studio City, the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica and the Marriott Manhattan Beach.

You can't help but notice the grand, majestic Moreton Bay fig tree -- a century-old icon that stands 80 feet tall and whose branches spread 120 feet -- as you arrive at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. It's the inspiration for the Figtini, offered inside at the Koi Bar and the Grille, where Kleiner Feigling Fig Vodka -- a German liquor infused with natural fig essence -- gets a shot of Grey Goose Citron and a splash of triple sec.