<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/91f5164c-98c6-4c55-8a16-fb0f3d06f9a5/E5F2C391-2D07-4D5E-9B5E-0F0BFFE97915/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/22/ZONE1222.ART_ART_12-22-08_C8_EJC9CIR.html?sid=101" href="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/22/ZONE1222.ART_ART_12-22-08_C8_EJC9CIR.html?sid=101" style="font-size: 11px;">www.columbusdispatch.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/22/ZONE1222.ART_ART_12-22-08_C8_EJC9CIR.html?sid=101"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.columbusdispatch.com/img/FBD77C4B-4D7D-481F-982E-1CC054A9632B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/22/ZONE1222.ART_ART_12-22-08_C8_EJC9CIR.html?sid=101"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.columbusdispatch.com/img/1A95EAA2-95FA-49FB-AAB0-05D452E6866D" alt="<p>The 111-year-old Westin Great Southern recently completed a $9.6 million renovation with extensive restoration in the lobby, above, and the ballroom, in detail at left.</p>" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/22/ZONE1222.ART_ART_12-22-08_C8_EJC9CIR.html?sid=101">The owners of the Westin Great Southern hotel have welcomed the historic property into the 21st century by emphasizing the past as well as the present.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/22/ZONE1222.ART_ART_12-22-08_C8_EJC9CIR.html?sid=101"><P>Workers painstakingly renovated the marble floors in the hotel's expansive lobby and ballroom, turning the surfaces from broken and murky to sealed and shiny. <BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/22/ZONE1222.ART_ART_12-22-08_C8_EJC9CIR.html?sid=101"><P>Meanwhile, the hotel's rooms were brought up to date to Westin Hotels & Resorts' latest specifications, including an uncluttered design, high-definition televisions and Westin's "Heavenly Bed."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/22/ZONE1222.ART_ART_12-22-08_C8_EJC9CIR.html?sid=101"><P>Marcus Hotels & Resorts and Waterton Commercial, the hotel's majority owner, recently completed $9.6 million worth of updates to the Great Southern, which last had a design overhaul more than two decades ago, said Bryan Postema, director of sales and marketing. The changes included the renovation and rebranding of the hotel's restaurant, which is now called High Street Grille.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/12/22/ZONE1222.ART_ART_12-22-08_C8_EJC9CIR.html?sid=101"><P>The Great Southern has flown the Westin flag since 1996.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E5F2C391-2D07-4D5E-9B5E-0F0BFFE97915/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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