PM Hospitality Strategies Names Tara Kucharski Director of Sales for Westin Wilmington

                        

The 180-Room Westin Wilmington, 815 Justison Street, Wilmington, DE
 scheduled to open in Spring 2014

            WILMINGTON, DE and WASHINGTON, DC—PM Hospitality Strategies (PMHS), a hotel management company, announced the appointment of Tara Kucharski as director of sales for the soon-to-open Westin Wilmington connected to the Chase Convention Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, Del.

Tara Kucharski

The 180-room, four-star hotel is slated to open in the spring of 2014 and is a joint venture between Buccini/Pollin Group and Westport Capital.  

PMHS is overseeing construction, providing pre-opening services and will operate the hotel upon opening.

A native of the Wilmington area, Kucharski has worked her entire career in the hospitality industry, rising from a bartender at the locally popular Three Little Bakers dinner theater, and most recently serving as director of sales and marketing at the Sheraton Suites Wilmington.   

 “Tara not only knows the hotel market in Wilmington, but has deep personal and business ties to the area, which will give us a tremendous advantage as we introduce the Westin brand to the state of Delaware,” said Joseph Bojanowski, PMHS president. 

“This hotel, with 100,000 square feet of its own meeting space, will enable Wilmington to accommodate groups that had previously expressed interest, but were too large for the existing hotel inventory. 

“Tara’s combination of hotel sales and local market expertise will be critical in putting together all of the pieces to achieve this goal.” 

Joseph Bojanowski

The LEED-designed Westin Wilmington also will feature a legal center, full service restaurant, a Westin WORKOUT® Gym, indoor pool and 24-hour business center. 

“The Westin is the first, new full-service hotel built in Wilmington in 20 years, and its convention center location in the heart of our entertainment and cultural center, gives us an opportunity to welcome new business and leisure visitors to our part of the first state,” Kucharski said.

  “With the addition of the Westin’s market leading meeting space, Wilmington now can compete with Philadelphia and Baltimore for convention and meeting business.”

Located at 815 Justison St., the Westin Wilmington will offer guests easy access to I-95 and the Philadelphia International Airport (30 mins.), neighboring restaurants and shops, as well as all of the riverfront’s attractions, including Frawley Stadium (home of the Wilmington Blue Rocks), the Delaware Theater Company, Delaware Children’s Museum, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts and a 15-screen IMAX theater. 

For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Chris Daly, Jerry Daly media

(703) 435-6293

chris@dalygray.com

 www.pmhs.com