The new glass and brick Sheraton Hotel in downtown Duluth was a beehive of activity Wednesday as employees and contractors made final preparations for the hotel's opening this morning.
"Today it's the final details -- the dusting, the cleaning. All the rooms are getting their final check," Teresa Glatz, director of sales and marketing, said Wednesday. "It'll be a late night."
A ribbon-cutting for the 147-room hotel, at 311 E. Superior St., was held this morning. The Sheraton signs will light up for the first time tonight.
The Sheraton, part of the worldwide Starwood hotel chain, cost $40 million to build and is the most expensive hotel ever constructed in the city, according to developer and owner George Sherman.
It is the first new hotel to open in downtown and Canal Park in five years. Today's opening marks the end of more than three years of planning and construction by Sherman Associates, George Sherman's company.
