Sage Hospitality Resources.

• Author: Lewis, David
• Position: TOURISM/HOSPITALITY

SAGE HOSPITALITY RESOURCES CO-FOUNDER. President and CEO Walter Isenberg started with the company back in 1984 as COO. This is apropos for a hospitality company, which succeeds when it makes operations as complex as a nuclear submarine's seem as simple as picking a mint off a pillow.

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Denver-based Sage Hospitality, with 6,000 employees, manages hotels, invests in them, and owns and manages restaurants. In September the company signed an agreement to manage hotels in Minneopolis and San Diego, bringing its total of hotel properties owned or Managed to 59, including 17 in the metro Denver area: in all, the company has owned or managed more than 400 hotels in 40 states.

The heart of company assets arguably are Sage's downtown, Denver hotels, Which include the Brown Palaee, the Oxford Hontel, Courtyard Denver Downtown, the Embassy Suites Denver-Down-town/Convention Center, the SpringHill Suites Denver Downtown, the Curtis, and others.

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