Word comes today that St. Louis officials are supporting a request of bondholders of the Renaissance Grand & Suites Hotels to help out in a plan to raise some money for the financially struggling convention hotel downtown.

A report of a…

Bondholders of the financially struggling Renaissance Grand & Suites Hotels are scheduled to get together next week by telephone to hear the latest about the hotel’s weakening pulse.

The conference call is set for 1:30 p.m. Nov. 12. The nearly 1,100-room convention…

Over on Mound City Money, colleague David Nicklaus has been closely following the travails of the Renaissance Hotel, and we noted in his report today that the consultants for the bondholders who own the place have “taken a preliminary look” at…

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The 1,100-room Renaissance Grand complex downtown might come at a bargain price but that’s not to say it would be cheap.

To no one’s surprise, UMB Bank–the trustee for the holders of…

Across downtown from the financially struggling Renaissance Grand & Suites come words of support from the head of another big hotel, the Hyatt Regency Riverfront.

Greg Saunders, the Hyatt’s managing director, said having two hotels big enough to handle large meetings and…