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With the Los Angeles area's hospitality industry riding the crest of the booming entertainment business, L'Ermitage hotel has reopened in Beverly Hills after being closed for four years.
The 124-room L'Ermitage was the flagship of the L'Ermitage group created chiefly for the 1984 Olympics, with renovations of apartment houses in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. That allsuite chain disintegrated by 1991. Bought by Paris-based Immobiliere Hoteliers and Los Angelesbased Colony Capital in 1994, the L'Ermitage hotel has undergone a four-year refurbishment, said hotel spokeswoman Kathy Honan.
Purchase and renovation together amounted to $60 million. Rack rates for its 111 rooms, which average 675 square feet, begin at $380 a night. Thirteen larger suites have rates ranging from $780 to $3,800 a night.
All rooms have 10 jacks with...