Extended Stay Hotels
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Extended Stay Hotels (ESH) is a hotel brand that operates in the extended stay hotel market.
Extended Stay Hotels and its brands currently own and operate over 680 hotels with approximately 76,000 rooms across the United States and Canada.
The company was formed in 2004 when the Blackstone Group, owners of Homestead Studio Suites Hotels, bought Extended Stay America and its brands StudioPLUS and Crossland Economy Studios. The company created an additional brand, Extended Stay Deluxe in 2005.
Extended Stay Hotels, its brands, and its management company, Homestead Village Management (HVM, LLC) were purchased from The Blackstone Group by The Lightstone Group in 2007 for approximately US$8 Billion.
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on June 15, 2009
