St. Regis Hotels & Resorts

In 1904, John Jacob Astor built the St. Regis New York as a sister property to his part-owned Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Exhibiting luxury and technological advance, each room had its own telephone. Ownership changes, a new wing, and restorations occurred over the following decades. In 1966, Sheraton Hotels purchased the property.[1] After an extensive restoration in 1991, the hotel became the flagship for the Sheraton premier hotels rebranded as the ITT Sheraton Luxury Collection.[2]

In 1998, Starwood acquired the Sheraton brand,[3] and created a new St. Regis brand.[4] In September 2016, Marriott gained the St. Regis chain as part of its acquisition of Starwood.[5] The brand name cannot be used in the lower mainland of British Columbia, because the name is legally owned by the independent St. Regis Hotel, Vancouver, built in 1913.[6]

There are over 60 St. Regis-branded hotels around the world with over 10,000 rooms.[13][11] Some of the better-known properties include:

• The St. Regis Bal Harbour
• The St. Regis Chicago[14]
• The St. Regis Mexico City
• The St. Regis New York
• The St. Regis Toronto
• The St. Regis Washington, D.C.
• The St. Regis Zhuhai

In January 2018, SolidBlock created a smart contract and digitized platform for the tokenization of The St. Regis Aspen, which became the first private single asset real estate investment trust (REIT) in the US to issue a Security Token Offering and traded on the blockchain. Through an intensive campaign, $18 million was raised - nearly one-fifth of the equity deal sold through digital tokens to investors worldwide.[15]

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