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by Jennifer Richinelli

Designed by the team at Avenue Interior Design, the recently opened Benson Hotel and Faculty Club is a hospitality center for the nationally recognized University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. It sits adjacent to the Fitzsimmons Innovation Community, the new business and residential district focused on medical and bioscience.The boutique hotel was designed to accommodate the needs of the hospitals and the University by offering luxury guestrooms, a full-service restaurant, spacious light-filled meeting facilities and an elegant ballroom and Rose Garden for large social functions. The 106 accommodations of the Benson Hotel and Faculty Club include a mix of guestrooms, suites and an entire floor of apartment-style suites with kitchens. At the center of many areas of the design is beautiful tile. Stone World recently caught up with Denise Pan, director of design & projects, and Bessie Shen, senior project designer, at the Los Angeles, CA-based firm Avenue Interior Design (AID) to learn more details about the hospitality project. 

Rod Sigman CTC, CCTS, CSMTT is the business development leader for MAPEI Corporation’s UltraCare® line of products for the care and maintenance of tile and stone products. Sigman has a proven track-record of success in the flooring industry, with experience in both training and education, as well as all support functions pertaining to national sales accounts and distribution. He has served on the technical committees of the National Tile Contractors Association (NTCA) and the Natural Stone Institute (NSI). He has successfully completed the Ceramic Tile Consultant Course, is a Certified Ceramic Tile Specialist (CCTS) and is also a Concrete Slab Moisture Testing (CSMT) Technician. Further, he was recognized by the Marble Institute of America (now the Natural Stone Institute) as a significant influence for the stone industry.

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