Sheraton Hotel in Jacksonville, FL Adds on to Event Space

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. October 12, 2011

Jacksonville, FL - October 11, 2011 - The Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel announced today the new Buchman Ballroom opened on October 1. With a total of nine separate meeting spaces measuring more than 6,000 square feet, the property is now capable of serving various meeting and event needs.

The new space provides stylish, comfortable and flexible meeting space for multiple small breakouts, corporate meetings or large area meetings. Whether the meeting is for four or 400, the hotel's new state-of-the-art meeting facilities service any need.

The Buchman Ballroom is capable of hosting 300-person weddings or 400-person conferences. With 14-foot ceilings, plush finishes and 21st century technological capabilities supported by Sheraton's excellent catering and conference staff, meeting and event planning is a pleasure at the Sheraton Jacksonville. The Ballroom can also break down into four breakout rooms with state-of-the-art sound-proof operable walls allowing for multiple configurations.

Designed by award-winning Milton Pate Architects, the focal point of the Buchman Ballroom is the 21-foot arched entry way that faces West in order to capture evening light. It opens to a spacious well-lit 1,900-square-foot pre-function area with 20-foot ceilings suitable for meeting registration, social breakouts or cocktail receptions.

The 828-square-foot Jaguar Rooms and the combined 1162-square-foot Matthews and Hart Rooms serve as great pre-function space, as they are situated adjacent to the ballroom to provide ample “break-out” and support areas for a wide variety of events.

The Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel, which opened in 2008, was purchased in a joint venture with Aimbridge Hospitality and Argonaut Private Equity in November 2010. The 159-room hotel is located in the lively Deerwood Park area of southeast Jacksonville, Florida and is just minutes away from the Jacksonville beaches, the Avenues Shopping Mall, the University of North Florida and the new St. Johns Town Center Mall.

The convenience of being located in the Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel with all of its amenities provides a one-stop location for events. The hotel's restaurant, Bold City Grill, is the perfect place to have a business lunch or post-meeting rendezvous to complete the perfect meeting or conference.

Aimbridge, one of the nation's leading independent hotel investment and management firms, manages the hotel and will oversee the addition.

For more information, please call (904) 564-4772, or visit the hotel's Web site at http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/index.html.

About Aimbridge Hospitality
Aimbridge Hospitality is one of the nation's leading independent hotel investment and management firms with a proven track record for delivering superior returns for its strategic partners in a variety of markets and economic cycles. Aimbridge provides management, asset management, development, renovation and consulting services. Based in Dallas, Texas, Aimbridge currently owns and/or manages over 70 upscale, independent and branded hotels with nearly 11,000 rooms across the United States and the Caribbean, including such affiliations as Marriott, Hilton, Embassy Suites, DoubleTree, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn & Suites, Aloft, Hyatt, Wyndham and the Phoenix Inn Suites chain of hotels. For more information on Aimbridge Hospitality, please visit www.aimbridgehospitality.com.

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