Four Seasons Philadelphia Closes

Farewell to the Philadelphia Four Seasons… for now. The iconic luxury hotel shut its doors yesterday after more than 30 years of operation. It took its last reservations for the evening of June 6th and ended operations on June 7th. The Four Seasons was located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway overlooking Logan Square. It has 357 rooms and was described by Philly.com aptly as “beautiful but aging.” Its restaurant and meeting rooms were popular hotspots for the city’s corporate clientele. It had received increasing competition in recent years from the remodeled Rittenhouse Hotel. The Philadelphia Four Seasons was priced slightly lower than other hotels in the chain, thanks in part to Philadelphia’s high supply of hotel rooms and comparatively lower demand.

The Philadelphia Four Seasons will be re-branded as an independent luxury hotel.

The current hotel building will undergo a massive renovation. It will no longer be a part of the Four Seasons brand. It is planned to reopen this fall as an independent luxury hotel under control of Sage Management. As for the Four Seasons, it will have a new home in the Comcast Tower that is currently under construction. It is planned that the new Four Seasons will open sometime in early 2018 with 200 rooms, each of which will cost about half a million dollars to build. The Comcast skyscraper is set to be finished in late 2017.

The hotel reported that many longtime patrons showed up Friday to bid the Four Seasons farewell. The hotel’s restaurant, the high end Fountain, served its last meal back in December. The restaurant is scheduled for a makeover as the steakhouse chain Urban Farmer.