Drury Hotels
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Drury Hotels Company, LLC is an American hospitality company that operates a chain of mid-scale limited service hotels<ref name=HQ/> under the brands Drury Inn and Suites, Drury Plaza Hotel, and Pear Tree Inn.<ref name="STLBJ"/> As of 2024, the chain operates more than 150 locations in 30 states.<ref name="about">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is wholly owned by the Drury family and is headquartered in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri.
History
The company was founded by the sons of Lambert Drury, a farmer who lost his farm during the Great Depression, and then founded a plastering company.<ref name="bobdrury"/> The Drury Development Corporation was founded in 1959. The Drury family built its first hotel, a Holiday Inn, in 1962 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The family started Drury Hotels in 1973 and built its first Drury Inn in Sikeston, Missouri.<ref name="bobdrury"/> The Drury Hotels company operates non-Drury hotels as well.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In the 1990s, the chain introduced a third brand, Thrifty Inn.<ref name="jakle">Template:Cite book</ref>
Co-founder Charles Drury died on September 7, 2020, in St. Louis; his death was acknowledged by Governor of Missouri Mike Parson.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Two other co-founders, James and Robert, died in 2008 and 2013, respectively.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="bobdrury">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2024, Drury Hotels earned its 18th J.D. Power award for highest guest satisfaction in upper midscale hotels.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Drury Hotels opened two hotels in 2024 in Savannah, Georgia and Arlington, Texas, with hotels in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Florence, Kentucky expected to open later this year.
Renovation of historic buildings
The chain has purchased several historic buildings for renovation as hotels.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Historic buildings that the chain has renovated into hotels include the Union Market in St. Louis (originally built in 1925),<ref>History of Drury Inn & Suites St. Louis Convention Center</ref> the former Cleveland Board of Education building in Cleveland (originally built in 1931)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the former City Public Service Building (originally built in 1921)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the former Alamo National Bank building (originally built in 1929)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in San Antonio; a hotel in Wichita, Kansas originally built in 1922<ref>Drury Plaza hotel Broadview, Retrieved 27 September 2016.</ref> a former Sisters of Charity dormitory and hospital in Santa Fe, originally built in 1910 and the early 1950s;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and three St. Louis properties originally built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.<ref name="about"/> The former Federal Reserve building in Pittsburgh was renovated into a 207-room hotel and opened in late 2016.<ref>Drury Hotels plans to open new hotel in downtown Pittsburgh in mid-2016</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At the Pittsburgh hotel, a former firing range was converted into an indoor pool, and former bank vaults were turned into meeting spaces.<ref>Drury schedules opening date for new downtown hotel</ref> It also plans to renovate the former First Financial Centre building in Milwaukee<ref name="MILBJ">Downtown Milwaukee building sold to Missouri investor for planned conversion into hotel</ref> and the former Indianapolis Business Journal building in Indianapolis, which dates to 1924.<ref>Indianapolis Business Journal building to become Drury hotel</ref>