New Rosemont hotel brings edgy offerings to O’Hare-area market

Rosemont’s collection of hotels just got a little edgier.

The area’s newest hotel is The Rose, a 165-room boutique hotel in the shadow of O’Hare Airport.

Owned by Deerfield-based Janko Group, the hotel is part of Hilton’s Tapestry Collection of smaller, more modern offerings, according to the Chicago Tribune. It opened Thursday.

The hotel has amenities one might typically see in an airport hotel, including meeting rooms, ballrooms and a restaurant. But the hotel also has an artful presentation, including an umbrella installation on the ceiling and zebra-painted mannequins in the lobby.

The five-story hotel, 5200 Pearl Street, was a new-construction project for Janko and is the first of Hilton’s Tapestry Collection to be built from scratch, according to the Tribune. It is within Rosemont’s new Pearl District, Chicago-based Braden Real Estate’s entertainment district housing a Dave & Buster’s and upscale restaurants.

Standard rooms will average about $259 a night.

Hilton’s longstanding Rosemont hotel was sold this spring to a venture of Hong Kong-based Junson Capital for $37 million — the largest hotel deal in the O’Hare submarket in more than two years.

The real estate investment arm of Prudential Insurance in August listed two Rosemont hotels — the DoubleTree Rosemont and Embassy Suites Rosemont — in a deal that industry experts said could eclipse the Hilton sale and be the biggest deal since the Westin O’Hare sold for $82 million in 2015.

[Chicago Tribune] — Joe Ward