OTHER NEWS - Feb. 23, 1993

L’Ermitage to Keep Some Rooms Open: The new owners of the posh L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills have dumped plans to completely close the facility for about six months while it is being renovated and will instead keep 25 of the hotel’s 112 suites open. Lahotel Corp., which purchased the project in December, originally planned to close the entire facility while it remodels some of its rooms and adds a small business center and health club. Keeping the limited number of rooms open is expected to save the jobs of about 30 of the hotel’s 100 workers, a Lahotel spokeswoman said.