About ten minutes walking NW of the Frankfurt train station....is one of the few five-star hotels of Frankfurt, the Grand Hotel Hessischer Hof.
It's selling power? Well...it faced the Messe area, where the trade fairs would occur on a regular basis. Built in the early 1950s, it had around 120 rooms, and often the focus of business-talks around the city. In the high-season, rooms easily went for 400 Euro an evening.
Well...the Covid-19 business and collapse of the the travel business....has triggered the announcement of the impending closure of the hotel. HR reported this today.
A big deal? It's simply a sign of the economic trend underway. My humble guess is that it'll be packaged up and sold off by early 2021....to a company which will rename it, and try to use it as a four-star location, and go for half the rate that is charged presently.
The odds of the Messe shows bringing back business? Well....no, that's not going to happen. With the car-show permanently gone (to Munich), the city pretty much destroyed the show-business angle to the Messe. The book show is about the only major show left for the city.
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