CEO Interview: Veteran Hotelier Stephen Brandman on Reinventing Lifestyle Hotel Management
Photo Credit: The lobby of the new Mondrian Park Avenue, the latest property to be managed by new hotel management company Journal Hotels. Journal Hotels
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Journal Hotels is out to prove that you don't necessarily need to be a brand to succeed in the increasingly crowded lifestyle hotel space.
Stephen Brandman has a more than 30-year history of working in the hotel industry, including co-founding Thompson and Commune Hotels and working for more than 16 years for InterContinental Hotels Group.
In 2017, he made news again with the announcement that he would lead a new hotel management company, Journal Hotels, which was started by Goodwin Gaw and David Chang, the owners of The Hollywood Roosevelt hotel.Journal Hotels' U.S. portfolio includes The Hollywood Roosevelt, The Standard High Line, the newly opened Mondrian Park Avenue, the Ambassador Chicago (formerly known as the Public Chicago), Two Bunch Palms, and the Hotel G.
With Journal Hotels, Brandman sees an opportunity to reinvent the business model of a lifestyle hotel company, and Skift recently spoke to the CEO about that model, as well as where he sees the future of boutique and lifestyle hospitality.
On What He's Doing Differently With Journal Hotels
"What I am trying to accomplish is, in years' past I founded a
