Drury Hotels

Drury Hotels, LLC
Private
Industry Hospitality
Founded 1973
Headquarters Creve Coeur, Missouri, U.S.[1]
Key people
 Charles L. Drury, Jr. (CEO)[2]
Products Hotels
Revenue $514 million (2015)[3]
Number of employees
 4,631 (2016)[3]
Website www.druryhotels.com

Drury Hotels, LLC is an American hospitality company which operates a chain of mid-scale limited service hotels[1] under the brands Drury Inn and Suites (its flagship brand), Drury Inn, Drury Suites, Drury Plaza Hotel, and Pear Tree Inn.[3] The chain operates 130 locations in 21 states as of 2016.[4] It is wholly owned by the Drury family and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.[3]

History

The company was founded by the sons of Lambert Drury, a farmer who lost his farm during the Great Depression and then founded a plastering company.[5] The Drury Development Corporation was founded in 1959. The Drury family built its first hotel, a Holiday Inn, in 1962 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The family started Drury Hotels in 1973 and built its first Drury Inn in Sikeston, Missouri.[5] The Drury Hotels company operates non-Drury hotels as well.[6] In the 1990s, the chain introduced a third brand, Thrifty Inn.[7]

The Drury Inn & Suites in Valdosta, Georgia

One of the founders, James Drury, died on March 17, 2008, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.[8] A second founder, Robert Drury, died on November 28, 2013, in San Antonio.[5][9]

As of July 2017, Drury Hotels has received the J.D. Power & Associates award for highest guest satisfaction in upper midscale hotels for 12 straight years, the longest-running streak in the category.[10][11]

Renovation of historic buildings

The chain has purchased several historic buildings for renovation as hotels.[12][13] Historic buildings that the chain has renovated into hotels include the former Cleveland Board of Education building in Cleveland (originally built in 1931)[14] the former City Public Service Building (originally built in 1921)[15] and the former Alamo National Bank building (originally built in 1929)[16] in San Antonio; a luxury hotel in Wichita, Kansas originally built in 1922[17] a former Sisters of Charity dormitory and hospital in Santa Fe, originally built in 1910 and the early 1950s;[18] and three St. Louis properties originally built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[4] The former Federal Reserve building in Pittsburgh is as of 2016 was renovated into a 207-room hotel and opened in late 2016.[19][20] At the Pittsburgh hotel, a former firing range was converted into an indoor pool, and former bank vaults were turned into meeting spaces.[21] It also plans to renovate the former First Financial Centre building in Milwaukee[22] and the former Indianapolis Business Journal building in Indianapolis, which dates to 1924.[23]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (24 July 2013). "Drury Hotels wins J.D. Power award". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  2. ↑ Company Overview of Drury Hotels Company, LLC Bloomberg
  3. 1 2 3 4 37 Drury Hotels Co. LLC
  4. 1 2 About Drury
  5. 1 2 3 "Bob Drury, part owner of Drury Hotels, CEO of Drury Southwest, dies". Retrieved 2013-12-07.
  6. ↑ Tom Neumeyer; Frank Nickell; Joel P. Rhodes (2004). Historic Cape Giardeau: An Illustrated History. San Antonio, Texas: The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce. pp. 116–118. 1-893619-39-7.
  7. ↑ Jakle, John A.; Sculle, Keith A.; Rogers, Jefferson S. (1996). The Motel in America. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 217. ISBN 0-8018-5383-4.
  8. ↑ "James Drury obituary". Retrieved 2013-12-07.
  9. ↑ "Robert Drury obituary". Retrieved 2013-12-07.
  10. ↑ J.D. Power ranks hotel brands for guest satisfaction (USA Today)
  11. ↑ Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index Finds Ritz-Carlton, Omni Hotels As Most Satisfying (Forbes)
  12. ↑ Drury increasingly goes downtown with creative restorations of landmark buildings
  13. ↑ Developers Are Turning Rust Belt Hulks Into Luxury Hotels
  14. ↑ Drury Plaza Hotel opens in former Cleveland Board of Education building after stunning renovation
  15. ↑ History of Drury Inn & Suites San Antonio Riverwalk
  16. ↑ History of Drury Plaza Hotel San Antonio Riverwalk
  17. ↑ Drury Plaza hotel Broadview, Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  18. ↑ Old Buildings Get New Life in Santa Fe
  19. ↑ Drury Hotels plans to open new hotel in downtown Pittsburgh in mid-2016
  20. ↑ Pennsylvania
  21. ↑ Drury schedules opening date for new downtown hotel
  22. ↑ Downtown Milwaukee building sold to Missouri investor for planned conversion into hotel
  23. ↑ Indianapolis Business Journal building to become Drury hotel
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