KALAMAZOO — When Tim Rayman looks through the lobby at the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites in downtown Kalamazoo, he sees “traditional.”
The furniture, the earth-tone colors, the long front desk “have a very traditional design,” he says.
The exterior of the 341-room hotel, retail and conference center — which continues to be a major center of activity for business and organizations — has a shining silver/blue facade with light-reflecting towers, a more contemporary look, says Rayman, who is director of hotels for Greenleaf Hospitality Group.
But starting Monday, one will begin to catch up with the other.
“Now we’re going to give a lot more of a contemporary look to the inside,” Rayman said. “... We’re finally going to kind of match the inside to the outside of the building.”
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