Brian Schmechel Appointed General Manager for The Hotel Minneapolis

Brian Schmechel, a twenty-year veteran of the Twin Cities hospitality industry, was named General Manager for The Hotel Minneapolis. The product of a partnership between Morrissey Hospitality Companies and Hempel Properties, The Hotel Minneapolis will open in the restored classic elegance of Minneapolis' Midland Building in August 2008.

Schmechel, a Green Bay, Wisconsin native, began his hospitality industry career in 1987 as a bellman at The Saint Paul Hotel. He was promoted to a sales manager post at The Saint Paul Hotel a year later, and has been assuming steadily increasing responsibilities at leading hotels ever since. Schmechel's experience includes sales management positions at the Holiday Inn West and Marriott Southwest, both in Minneapolis. He also served as the Director of Sales and Marketing for the Doubletree Park Place Hotel in St. Louis Park from 1998-2002. Since that time, Schmechel has been a marketing executive at downtown Minneapolis' Marquette Hotel, where he served as the Director of Business Development prior to accepting his new position for The Hotel Minneapolis.