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			In The News Renaissance Chic shops. Antique stores. Trendy cafes. Upscale destination. Today, Delafield is enjoying the revival of its downtown. By MIKE JOHNSON - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 11, 2006 Delafield - Once thought to be dying, Delafield's downtown is transforming into an upscale hub of Waukesha County. The latest visible sign of the metamorphosis: Delafield Square, a four-story building rising along Genesee St. where a single-story strip mall used to stand. Click here for entire article A Delafield destination By TOM DAYKIN - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel March 1, 2006 Delafield - A small luxury hotel opening this month could help propel Delafield into the same league as Lake Geneva or Kohler - two well-known Wisconsin destinations for upscale travelers seeking weekend getaways. "We think we are going to be a catalyst that'll push Delafield into that category as a destination," said Andrew Ruggeri, co-owner of the Delafield Hotel, which plans to open March 21. Click here for entire article Final touches being put on Delafield hotel By JUSTIN KERN - The Freeman January 30, 2006 DELAFIELD - Owners of the Delafield Hotel aren't just planning to construct a 38-suite hotel, restaurant and banquet hall in the heart of the city. They're planning on building a destination. Construction crews are putting the finishing work on the three-story, red brick building topped with a white, shingled spire at 415 Genesee St. Although vents currently hang from the ceiling of the larger of the two banquet halls, much of the framework for the restaurant and rooms has been established, and financiers anticipate opening the restaurant in mid-March and at least partially opening the hotel later that month. With condominiums, boutiques and recreation already surrounding the building, an upscale hotel and restaurant in the heart of the city will be a draw that keeps visitors in the bustling lakefront community, co-owner Andy Ruggeri said. "We're making a destination point," Ruggeri said. "We're going to be marketing on a world stage for guests and travelers, and we're marketing Delafield as a destination, also, which it's quickly becoming." Along with Ruggeri, the building is owned and operated by regional developer Bob Lang and Rob Gerbitz, chief operating officer of Lang Investment. The building was formerly a storage site for Lang's antique storefronts, and transformation on the building began in June. The restaurant lobby entrance is nearly complete, with wood floors, Oriental rugs, cherry wall paneling and an increasing assortment of antiques and grandfather clocks. Patrons will not only be greeted by a concierge behind a marble desk, but by the early 1900s ambience in the entrance and the attentiveness of the staff, Ruggeri said during a recent tour. "As big and beautiful as the building is going to be, our focus is on service, attending to every need and detail of the guest," Ruggeri said. Individually configured rooms are set to "try and take you away," with LCD flat screen televisions, wall-to-wall carpeting, Wi-Fi connection, and chairs, beds and cabinets from Kohler Interiors imprint Baker Furniture, Ruggeri said. Beds have Euro-top mattresses with 450-thread-count Egyptian cotton bedding and down comforters. A showroom bathroom also is designed to take you away, with a light-therapy massage tub that has easy view of a television, a walk-in shower with four heads and full stock of aromatherapy candles and Aveda brand sundries. "The bathrooms are all designed as in-room spas for every room. They all have the same amenities, but they're configured differently," Ruggeri said. Separate specialty suites on the second and third floors are named for Delafield landmarks the rooms overlook - The St. John's suite for St. John's Northwestern Academy and the Hawks Inn Suite for The Hawk's Inn Historical Society - and allow views of the sunrise and sunset. There are also four group suites with distinct rooms geared for families. Room prices range from $250 to $800 a night, which won't usually draw travelers coming off Interstate 94, but should bring sojourners from Chicago, Minneapolis and elsewhere, Gerbitz said. Owners studied destination hotels and found the proposition unique for southeastern Wisconsin. "There was nothing that we saw that was similar in style and nothing in this area. The next closest hotels� most of them are much more modern than (The Delafield Hotel)," Gerbitz said. On the first floor, jazz will set the mood nightly from the bar area, which serves as an entrance to Andrew's, the hotel restaurant. Focusing on intimate breakfasts and dinners, the restaurant serves to multiple rooms that continue the dark red and wood motif from the lobby. Six floor-to-ceiling in-room dining spaces are hidden from the main restaurant rooms and gourmands can also feast on a three-season patio on the northwest side of the building. Ruggeri brings his experience as a chef from his Delafield Italian restaurant Ruggeri's and assistance with hotel Metro in Milwaukee to Andrew's layout and menu, which will include crispy roast duck, Amish free-range chicken and Alaskan halibut. Aiming at the banquet set, owners have already booked eight weddings this year for the banquet halls, one of which holds 50 people and another more than 240. Ruggeri said Lang anticipates arranging hotel packages linked with Ten Chimneys, Lapham Peak and his Erin Hills Golf Course, another Lang project which is expected to open this summer. Downtown Delafield a busy construction site The Freeman December 3, 2005 DELAFIELD - Two major construction projects by Lang Investments are under way downtown: renovation of the Washington Building, 434 Wells St., into the Delafield Hotel and the building of a 16-unit condominium complex on Genesee Street. Steel girders that will form the framework of the four-story condominium building are being set in place with the aid of an overhead crane. Click here for entire article Building a destination By JUSTIN KERN - The Freeman January 30, 2006 DELAFIELD - Owners of the Delafield Hotel aren't just planning to construct a 38-suite hotel, restaurant and banquet hall in the heart of the city. They're planning on building a destination. Construction crews are putting the finishing work on the three-story, red brick building topped with a white, shingled spire at 415 Genesee St. Although vents currently hang from the ceiling of the larger of the two banquet halls, much of the framework for the restaurant and rooms has been established, and financiers anticipate opening the restaurant in mid-March and at least partially opening of the hotel later that month. Click here for entire article Downtown Delafield a busy construction site The Freeman December 3, 2005 DELAFIELD - Two major construction projects by Lang Investments are under way downtown: renovation of the Washington Building, 434 Wells St., into the Delafield Hotel and the building of a 16-unit condominium complex on Genesee Street. Steel girders that will form the framework of the four-story condominium building are being set in place with the aid of an overhead crane. Click here for entire article

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