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The two-acre“ urban resort” is situated in Forsyth Park, which is older than Central Park in New York and a prime example of the role of landscape architecture and urban planning in the U. S. The hotel is inspired by what Left Lane refers to as the“ leisurely luxury” and“ retro primetime of glamorous travel” of the 1960s along the Mediterranean coast.( Though similar sounding, the hotel does not get its name from Bridget Bardot.) The flagship hotel from Left Lane also boasts multiple F & B outlets, a spa and, a trademark of Left Lane, the members-only Club Bardo.
The hotel opened in 2024 and is already the market rate and RevPAR leader, according to Kully.
Though Hotel Bardo Savannah was not reconstituted from an office, a sister property in Pittsburgh currently under development is. Hotel Bardo Pittsburgh, scheduled to debut
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The Green Room at Hotel Bardo Savannah holds the hotel’ s lobby bar. Photo credit: Phillip Pond
in the summer of 2026, is a conversion and adaptive reuse of the existing 40-story art-deco Gulf Tower. The property will have 130 guestrooms and suites, 220 residences, multiple F & B outlets and 10,000 square feet of amenity space. And, on cue, a Club Bardo on the 31st floor. Kully believes the hotel will be
A guestroom at Hotel Bardo Savannah. Photo credit: Ale Santana
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the preeminent luxury offering in the city, where, say, if an NFL team is in town to play the Steelers, this is where they will stay.“ We’ re doing California king beds for the visiting sports teams,” Kully said.
Eastward, Left Lane is in the midst of a project in Providence, R. I., which will be a Bardo when complete, a conversion of The Turk’ s Head Building, which originally was designed in 1913. Beyond the grandeur of the building, constructed of white brick with granite and limestone trimmings and an iconic curved façade, the decision to invest in the building comes from the city’ s many demand generators, first and foremost as a locus of educational institutions: Brown University, Providence College, Johnson & Wales, to name just three.“ There are 11,500 visiting families each year,” Kully said.
Other projects, with a fartherout timeline, include a Recess
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Hotel & Club in Phoenix with a scheduled 2027 opening. The project, which will include 209 rooms and 143 residential units, is an adaptive reuse and expansion of the Phoenix Financial Center, also known as The Punchcard Building. Kully said that the property will have the largest fitness facility in all of Phoenix and an entry lagoon, to boot.
Rounding out its current lot of five projects is the conversion of the Falls Building in Memphis into multifamily, with no hotel component.
ON MY OWN One thing is clear about Left Lane: It doesn’ t mind going at it alone. In fact, it likes it that way. Investing in assets and affixing your own brand to it is not for the sheepish in the era of powerful lodging brands— from Hilton to Marriott— and their seemingly omnipotent loyalty
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60 hotelsmag. com July / August 2025 |