Historic Omaha
An illustrated history of Omaha and the Douglas County area, paired with the histories of companies, families and organizations that make the region great.
An illustrated history of Omaha and the Douglas County area, paired with the histories of companies, families and organizations that make the region great.
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CANDLEWOOD<br />
SUITES<br />
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Above: Dusk falls on Candlewood Suites.<br />
Below: “The Cupboard,” Candlewood’s<br />
twenty-four-hour-day convenience store.<br />
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Candlewood Suites is no ordinary hotel.<br />
Designed for travelers whose business keeps<br />
them in town for several days, it’s a place<br />
where they can put their family pictures on<br />
their desk and bring their favorite CDs to play<br />
in their room.<br />
Founded in 1995 by Jack DeBoer, in partnership<br />
with the Doubletree Hotel Chain,<br />
Candlewood Suites is DeBoer’s most recent<br />
business venture. DeBoer pioneered the<br />
extended-stay concept back in 1975 when he<br />
created the Residence Inn Hotel Chain. He<br />
sold the chain to Marriott in 1990 but kept<br />
his hand in the business by helping to create<br />
both the Summerfield Suites and the<br />
Cambridge Suites Hotel chains.<br />
Candlewood opened their hotel in <strong>Omaha</strong><br />
in November 1996. The 130-unit hotel, located<br />
at 360 South 108th Avenue in the Old Mill<br />
area, offers its residents a home away from<br />
home. Each room includes a fully equipped<br />
kitchen, including a microwave, full-size<br />
refrigerator with icemaker, two-burner range,<br />
dishwasher, and coffee maker and dining and<br />
cooking utensils. All the rooms include an<br />
iron and ironing board. There is also access to<br />
free laundry machines and same day drycleaning<br />
services.<br />
Candlewood is designed with the business<br />
traveler in mind, so it includes many in-room<br />
business amenities. For business people tired<br />
of the small, cramped workspaces that most<br />
hotels offer, Candlewood includes an oversized<br />
desk and executive chair. They also know that<br />
prompt and accurate communication is crucial<br />
for the business traveler. That’s why they offer<br />
personalized voice mail. In addition, each<br />
room has two telephone lines and hookups for<br />
laptop computers. Local calls are free and long<br />
distance calls are discounted.<br />
One of the many challenges that business<br />
travelers face is how to stay in shape when<br />
they’re hundreds of miles away from their<br />
health club. Candlewood solves this problem
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