From Centrum Inn to Hotel Worcester, a name change for Worcester's Holiday Inn
WORCESTER — The former Holiday Inn Express in Worcester is now known as Hotel Worcester.
The Holiday Inn branding at the hotel, at 110 Summer St., has been covered with printed signs and a person who answered the phone at the hotel Wednesday morning identified it as Hotel Worcester.
The general manager of the hotel was not immediately available and emails sent to the press office of IHG Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn's parent company, were not immediately returned.
The five-story hotel opened in 1983, shortly after the Centrum (now the DCU Center) opened nearby and was originally called the Centrum Inn, under the management of the Best Western chain.
It became a Hampton Inn in 1990.
In 2012, the name was changed to The Hotel Worcester after the owners lost affiliation rights with Hampton Inn. That designation didn't last long, with the owners penning an agreement with Holiday Inn. After a 14-month renovation, the hotel reopened as Holiday Inn Express.
This year, the hotel has been used to house refugees staying in Worcester.
In the 1950s, the five-story Hotel Worcester in Washington Square, opposite Union Station, was torn down.
This article originally appeared on Telegram & Gazette: Worcester Holiday Inn Express has a new name: Hotel Worcester
