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RCN Wins Trump International Hotel & Tower Contract in Chicago
CHICAGO --(Business Wire)-- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading provider of total communications service, today announced that it has been selected by the new Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago to provide its bundled "triple play" cable, phone and internet services for the Tower's residential condominiums and its cable video services for the hotel condominiums.
The 92-story Trump International Hotel & Tower, designed and engineered by Skidmore Owings & Merrill, has a building area of 2.6 million gross square feet and is located on the site of the former Chicago Sun-Times building. The new $740 million complex, scheduled to open in 2008, features 486 super-luxury residential condominiums, from studios to three-bedrooms, as well as up-to-five-bedroom penthouses. In addition, the Trump International Hotel has 339 Five-Star luxury condominium guest rooms, with one- and two-bedroom suites.
"The Trump International Hotel and Tower is an exciting opportunity and we are thrilled to be a part of this new Chicago landmark," said Tom McKay, RCN's VP & Chicago General Manager. "Trump International Hotel and Tower tenants will have access to RCN's excellent state-of-the art, high tech, reliable and efficient broadband products and services."
According to Trump International Hotel and Tower's Executive Vice President Andrew Weiss, "The buyers of our super-luxury residential condos demand the best and we believe RCN delivers the best in bundled broadband phone-Internet-TV service. With RCN also providing video service to our hotel condos, we can rest assured that guests are also receiving Five-Star television services in their rooms."
About RCN Corporation
RCN Corporation, http://www.rcn.com , is one of the largest facilities-based competitive providers of bundled cable, high-speed internet and phone services delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to residential customers in the most densely populated markets in the U.S. RCN Business Solutions is a growing business that also provides bulk video, high-capacity data and voice services to business customers. RCN provides service in the Boston, New York, Eastern Pennsylvania, Chicago and Washington, D.C. metropolitan markets. (RCNI-G)
About Trump International Hotels
Trump International Hotels is committed to delivering the highest level of service, style and exclusivity in major markets around the globe. Soaring above Columbus Circle is the brand's premiere property, Trump International Hotel & Tower New York, named to Travel + Leisure's 2007 T+L 500 and a fixture on Conde Nast Traveler's Gold List. Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago will open its doors in December, while Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas will open in Spring 2008, followed by Trump International Hotel SoHo in 2009. Additional properties are under development in several North American markets, including Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Ontario, Canada, and in strategic markets around the world, including Mexico, Panama, Dominican Republic and Dubai. For more information, please call (888) 448-7867 or visit www.trumpintl.com.
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