Miami’s Iconic Delano Spawns a New Hotel Brand
The South Beach landmark, currently undergoing a major renovation, sparked the lifestyle hotel craze. Its new corporate owners want to replicate that globally.
The porte cochere at Delano Miami Beach.
Source: Binyan Studios
“Listen here, all you beautiful people, very young and not so old. There’s a new fun place…” So began a 1995 New York Times review of the Delano, the now-iconic art deco hotel at 1685 Collins Ave. in Miami. Masterminded by hotelier-of-hoteliers Ian Schrager, and designed by architect of the day Philippe Starck, it was an instant hit: a celebrity magnet, the beating heart of a reinvented South Beach and the spark that ultimately fueled a luxury hotel boom in the Magic City.
Exactly 30 years later, the Delano is aiming to do it again, amid a major renovation that will see the hotel reopen in late 2025. But this time it’s not Schrager at the helm. Rather it’s Ennismore—a hotel collective founded by Indian-born entrepreneur Sharan Pasricha, and owned jointly with France’s Accor SA—and Cain International Advisers Ltd., the London-based developer that’s also invested some $900 million in the Aman Resorts brand alongside Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.