New York
One of Manhattan’s most popular cocktail lounges, The Skylark, launched a new event space for small meetings and corporate gatherings called The Den. The newly renovated space perched 30 stories above Times Square can accommodate up to 20 attendees and features leather seating, walnut flooring, industrial-inspired light fixtures and a variety of spaces designed for brainstorming and teambuilding.
Maryland
The Hotel at the Arundel Preserve completed renovations of all of its guest rooms and corridors, enhancing the 2023 renovations of its lobby and meeting rooms.
Located just over seven miles from the Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) Airport, the property features 12,000 square feet of meeting and event space that now feature prefunction spaces, comfortable seating options and enhanced lighting. The hotel’s Grand Ballroom can accommodate up to 500 attendees, and the eco-friendly property is also LEED Silver certified.
The latest renovation of the hotel’s 150 guest rooms brings new eco-friendly lighting, extra power outlets and contemporary finishes. The renovation also included upgrades to the hotel’s fitness center.
Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina completed an extensive renovation to the property’s meeting and event space, finalizing a transformation project that began in 2023 with an upgrade of the resort’s ballrooms.
The 400-room resort is nestled on 342 acres of Maryland’s Eastern Shore and has over 122,000 square of flexible meeting and event space. This includes the 11,259-square-foot Chesapeake Ballroom and the 4,860-square-foot Choptank Ballroom, both featuring prefunction foyers with floor-to-ceiling windows. The Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay also has 85,000 square feet of outdoor event space like the Regatta Pavillion or the Breakwater Pavillion, both offering waterfront views.
The resort’s business center has also been converted into a new meeting space called the Blue Heron room, which can accommodate up to 40 attendees in its 500 square feet of space.
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Virginia
The 254-room, all-suite Washington Dulles Marriott Suites completed a comprehensive renovation, including refreshed aesthetics and upgraded amenities in the property’s guest suites, meeting spaces and restaurant. The 11-story hotel is located three miles from Washington Dulles International Airport and offers easy access to wineries, museums and attractions throughout Northern Virginia.
Each redesigned suite has a separate bedroom and living area, workstation, wet bar, mini-fridge, microwave and safe. The Washington Dulles Marriott Suites also features a full-service restaurant and bar, lobby lounge, a 24/7 fitness center and five meeting rooms offering 2,600 square feet of total event space.
A New Take on Eastern Retreats
Gatheround Events & Retreats is a newly launched event and retreat management brand from the TLC Family of Camps, which has been operating summer camps in the Northeast region for over 60 years and offers teambuilding and dynamic retreat opportunities for groups.
Gatheround features seven unique all-inclusive venues across New York’s Catskills and Long Island regions and Pennsylvania’s Poconos Mountains region. These include Timber Lake in Catskills, New York; Tyler Hill in Poconos, Pennsylvania; North Shore in Gold Coast, New York; Timber Lake West in Roscoe, New York; Hampton Country in East Hampton, New York; The Shandaken Inn in Catskills; and The Inn in the Poconos.
The company offers a variety of package options that range from conceptualization, itinerary curation, vendor management, catering, staffing and operations work for fully produced events to helping to source venue rentals.
“We are delighted to officially introduce Gatheround Events & Retreats as a player in the meetings, events and retreats industry,” said Jay Jacobs, owner and director of the TLC Family of Camps and executive director of Gatheround. “Our team has been meticulously planning and managing weddings, corporate retreats and many other events for decades, so we are proud to be able to bring our services and venues to more people and companies through Gatheround.”
