Six years after being proposed and $6 million in renovations later, an old Holiday Inn has been transformed into something completely different: what owner Sam Patel calls "sassy, savvy, trendy."
It had a vibrating bed, fuzzy TV, and smelly sheets and towels, but a Rolling Meadows Holiday Inn hotel room happened to be the perfect setting for Pete Townshend s spiritual awakening. And it was possibly even where The Who guitarist penned early versions of the script for what would become the rock opera "Tommy." Now the building is set to face the wrecking ball.
Six years after being proposed and $6 million in renovations later, an old Holiday Inn has been transformed into something completely different: what owner Sam Patel calls "sassy, savvy, trendy."
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