Mazzone to operate Schenectady’s Parker Inn and Suites Posted on October 8, 2014 | By Eric Anderson
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Mazzone Hospitality will take over the management of Parker Inn and Suites adjacent to Proctors in downtown Schenectady, Chief Financial Officer Matthew Mazzone announced Wednesday.
The boutique hotel, a tall, narrow structure that adjoins Proctors, has experienced financial difficulties in recent years. Now, with new owners Jim and Paola Horvath, who acquired the property in late 2013, the hotel has brought in a management firm that’s well known in Schenectady. Angelo Mazzone got his start a few doors away on State Street at the former Peggy’s Restaurant, and now operates Aperitivo Bistro, a wine bar on State Street on the other side of Proctors. Angelo Mazzone owns Mazzone Hospitality.
“With our vast experience in hospitality and management of boutique properties, this is a perfect fit for our team,” said Matthew Mazzone. “We are deeply invested in the Schenectady area, as evidenced by longtime downtown restaurant Aperitivo Bistro and our new event space, Key Hall, as well as Glen Sanders Mansion, located just across the river in Scotia. We want the Inn to succeed and see a tremendous opportunity with this agreement to help all of these locations continue to thrive and to create a cohesive section of downtown Schenectady that can cater to guests in a variety of ways.”
“We have enjoyed a 15-year relationship with Mazzone Hospitality and knew this would be a perfect fit for the Parker Inn & Suites. Mazzone truly is a top-notch hospitality company,” the Horvaths said in a press release. “We have deep roots in Schenectady and wanted a partner that shared our love for the community. We are excited to reinvent the Parker Inn & Suites with a new management team and a renovated hotel lobby and lounge space.”
The Horvaths operated Accurate Disposal, Inc., which was sold several years ago
Parker Inn latest Mazzone venture Family to run hotel operations; makeover planned for lounge BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
The Mazzone family has taken over day-to-day operations at the Parker Inn.
It will allow Mazzone Hospitality to offer more services in connection with the Key Hall venue next-door, said Matthew Mazzone, chief financial officer for Mazzone Hospitality.
Weddings could begin with a cocktail hour in the lounge at the Parker Inn, then move to Key Hall for the reception, Mazzone said.
“If someone gets married at Key Hall, all their guests could stay there,” he added.
The Mazzones will not run a restaurant at the hotel, but will renovate the lounge.
“One of the biggest complaints we heard was the guests didn’t have a nice lounge,” he said.
They also complained about food, he said. Now, Aperitivo will provide room service and Mazzone caterers will provide a continental breakfast, he said. Mazzone Hospitality owns Aperitivo, which is just down the street from the hotel.
Mazzone Hospitality will also take over the back room, which once was the Parker Inn restaurant. That will become part of the foyer of Key Hall, he said.
There is also a second-floor space for private events at the hotel, which the Mazzones plan to use for “pre-show” parties and other events. It has room for about 35 people.
“For ‘Jersey Boys’ we already have some parties booked,” Mazzone said.
Many corporate clients bring their employees or customers to the show and book a party for them beforehand, he said.
As for the rooms themselves, he said they had been renovated twice between 2001 and now.
“The rooms are actually in really good shape,” he said, adding that Mazzone Hospi- tality will put in new linens that match the brand and make sure all rooms have flat-screen televisions.
There are 22 rooms in the hotel.
The Parker Inn was purchased by developer Chris Myers in 2001 and substantially remodeled. But he struggled to make the hotel financially feasible and depended on two loans from Metroplex Development Authority to get him through the first two years.
Finally, in 2011, he declared bankruptcy. His loans were extinguished, including $683,912 owed to Metroplex. Recently, all of the past-due taxes on the property were paid off, according to city tax records.
The hotel was purchased by Jim and Paola Horvath late last year and they picked Mazzone to run the hotel.
Mazzone Hospitality will handle all bookings and staffing, as well as coordinate events with Key Hall and Proctors.
if you have a wedding and stay at the parker inn....don't bother going to Johnnys for a nitecap....they close at 11pm and they boot your a$$ out.....
I think that's bc Johnny's is labeled a 'restaurant that offers drinks' as opposed to a 'bar that offers food'.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Quite obvious that these taxpayer funded hotels are not doing very well.
Taxpayers have to pay for this place AND bail him out not once but TWICE!
So, since taxpayers have paid for downtown and largely pay the property and school tax bills, where are the reports to the taxpayers on the use of their money, e.g., occupancy rates, etc? Oh that's right, it's a all a big secret, take the taxpayer money and hand it out; taxpayers don't have a right to know what is done with their money, not in Schenectady.
No surprise here
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Quite obvious that these taxpayer funded hotels are not doing very well.
Taxpayers have to pay for this place AND bail him out not once but TWICE!
So, since taxpayers have paid for downtown and largely pay the property and school tax bills, where are the reports to the taxpayers on the use of their money, e.g., occupancy rates, etc? Oh that's right, it's a all a big secret, take the taxpayer money and hand it out; taxpayers don't have a right to know what is done with their money, not in Schenectady.
No surprise here
Is schenectady the only municipality that gives tax incentives/breaks to businesses? Is NYS the only state that gives tax incentives/breaks to businesses?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Is schenectady the only municipality that gives tax incentives/breaks to businesses? Is NYS the only state that gives tax incentives/breaks to businesses?
Nope, but the same near bankruptcy policies are causing the same results nationwide.
Just FYI - Hampton Inn's business seems to be booming. People visiting often can't book a room unless they do it ~2 weeks or so in advance. (At least a few data points)
No matter what. This stuff is all paid for with taxpayers' money, there the city, county, and metroplex have an obligation to provide detailed reports to the taxpayers of every dime spent and taken in.
What are the people, particularly in the city, getting in return for the tax money being spent?
All this tax money spent on downtown and what is the result?
What is happening to the tax base? What is happening to the property values? What is happening to the desirability of people to buy a house in the city and live in the house? What is happening to the home sale prices What is happening to the essential services to the city's residents in their neighborhoods where they live? What is happening to the tax BILLS?
Since the tax base is falling massively, and people do NOT want to live in the city (proven, evidenced by the ever increasing numbers of houses being put up for sale, the huge number of beautiful houses for sale and the owners have already fled as evidenced by the EMPTY houses in nice areas, combined with massively falling home sales) falling home sale prices, the elimination and reductions in essential services to the people in the city in their neighborhoods, the massively increasing tax BILLS, the businesses moving out (no department stores left in the city, can't even buy a new car in the city), the taxpayers have a birthright entitlement to know what is being done with every dime of their money.
So where are the details for the taxpayers? Where is a detailed accounting of every room occupied on each day of every year since the Hampton and the Parker in open? What about the Bow Tie let's see a day by day accounting of how many seats were occupied for each show at each theater since it open (we went there twice, both on Friday nights for new movies, barely 25 people in the theater), the gin mills, how many employees do they have, what is the pay, how many hours do the employees work, what kind of health insurance plan, how much do the employers contribute to the premium--at the gin mills AND all the other taxpayer funded businesses.
Where are the reports? Where is are the balance sheets?
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Just FYI - Hampton Inn's business seems to be booming. People visiting often can't book a room unless they do it ~2 weeks or so in advance. (At least a few data points)
that is very true. in fact someone we know who is getting married in a couple of weeks, are having their rehearsal party at the Stockade Inn ...... AND the bride and girls in the wedding party have rented rooms at the Hampton Inn to stay there o/n.
they said that a lot of their friends are doing the same thing.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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