International Media Coverage & Awards Here is a sampling of our recent media coverage. Click the links for details! Hotelier does business with heart: fighting bigotry, bias and racism News & Record, October 31, 2011 Watch Matt Lauer talk about Five Reasons to Love the United States, including Proximity, on The Today Show, June 19, 2008. "The Impulsive Traveler: Going green in Greensboro, NC" The Washington Post, March 25, 2011 'Green' hotel proves saving energy makes money News & Observer, Raleigh June 6, 2010 Listen to "The State of Things" interview with Frank Stasio, WUNC radio, March 15, 2010 Cornell CHR and SAS Webcast Series - Sustaining the Right Balance:Green Initiatives for Hospitality and Gaming On-Demand Webcast March 2010 Proximity's Chief Design Officer Dennis Quaintance featured on FOX8 News, June 2007. Click once above to view or download: Windows Media Player | Quicktime WRAL News Feature Video June 2009 Watch the video of the Proximity feature on NC Weekend in April 2009. Read April 14, 2009 feature: Eclectic accommodations for eco-travelers. July 2009 Feature Fortune & Wallpaper Magazines picked Proximity at one of the Top 50 New Business Hotels in the World! May 2008 Cover of the North Carolina Travel Guide 2009 Named "Best Hotel" in The Best of Southern Living December 2008 Hospitality Lighting Fall 2009 NC Signature Photo Essay January 2009 Small Market Meetings February 2009 Southern Living October 2008 Watch us on The Weather Channel, broadcasting live from Proximity in Oct 2008 One of 50 Reasons to love the United States Travel+Leisure, July 2008 Builder/Architect Green Building Issue 2009 Hemispheres October 2008 The Green Grok, Dr. Bill Chameides November 2008 Travel Weekly June 2008 Opulent Eco Travel Outside Go August/September 2008 Metropolitan Home April 2008 SmartMoney.com April 2008 September 2008 Cooking Light November 2008 Greensboro Monthly Magazine (cover) December 2007 Outside Magazine March 2008 Organic Spa Fall 2007 New York Times September 2007 NC Signature Magazine September 2007 USAirways Magazine March 2008 More Media Coverage! National Geographic Traveler's Video -"Among U.S. hotels, Proximity is a leader." Small Market Meetings - Progressive Engineer - Global Innovation Report (England) - Healing Lifestyles & Spas - A New Kind of Hotel Art, News & Record - New 2 Investigates Greenwashing - Business Journal of the Triad - HPAC (Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning) Magazine - Case Study by Urban Land Institute - Electronics Recycling December 2008 - WCNC (NBC) Charlotte - Dallas Morning News - Boston Globe - News & Record: Going green is easier than you think - News & Record: Print Works Bistro Review - News & Record: Profile of Executive Chef Bart Ortiz - News & Record: Proximity elevates green design - News & Record: Green Hotel Goes Platinum Travel + Leisure June 2007 BizLife Magazine December 2006 Case Study USGBC Case Study for Proximity's LEED Platinum Certification Awards Best Sustainable Design by Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Partnership Award for Innovative Energy Solutions by the Energy Solutions Center (June 2008) Presentation Watch Dennis Quaintance speak at 2009 Southern Colorado Sustainability Conference. Press Releases Proximity is first LEED Platinum Hotel in the USA (Oct 2008) Proximity Opens! (Nov 2007) Proximity's Sustainable Practices (Nov 2007) Dennis & Nancy King Quaintance Dennis Quaintance Biography | Nancy King Quaintance Biography For more information, please contact Mark File, our marketing guy in Greensboro. Images Below are a few of the high resolution images available. Many more are available upon request. Proximity Hotel and Print Works Bistro Download High Resolution Image Proximity Hotel Download High Resolution Image City Suite at Proximity Hotel Download High Resolution Image Dennis Quaintance with the 100 solar panels atop the Proximity Hotel Download High Resolution Image
Watch Matt Lauer talk about Five Reasons to Love the United States, including Proximity, on The Today Show, June 19, 2008.
Listen to "The State of Things" interview with Frank Stasio, WUNC radio, March 15, 2010
Cornell CHR and SAS Webcast Series - Sustaining the Right Balance:Green Initiatives for Hospitality and Gaming On-Demand Webcast March 2010
Proximity's Chief Design Officer Dennis Quaintance featured on FOX8 News, June 2007. Click once above to view or download: Windows Media Player | Quicktime
WRAL News Feature Video June 2009
Watch the video of the Proximity feature on NC Weekend in April 2009.
Read April 14, 2009 feature: Eclectic accommodations for eco-travelers.
July 2009 Feature
Fortune & Wallpaper Magazines picked Proximity at one of the Top 50 New Business Hotels in the World! May 2008
More Media Coverage! National Geographic Traveler's Video -"Among U.S. hotels, Proximity is a leader." Small Market Meetings - Progressive Engineer - Global Innovation Report (England) - Healing Lifestyles & Spas - A New Kind of Hotel Art, News & Record - New 2 Investigates Greenwashing - Business Journal of the Triad - HPAC (Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning) Magazine - Case Study by Urban Land Institute - Electronics Recycling December 2008 - WCNC (NBC) Charlotte - Dallas Morning News - Boston Globe - News & Record: Going green is easier than you think - News & Record: Print Works Bistro Review - News & Record: Profile of Executive Chef Bart Ortiz - News & Record: Proximity elevates green design - News & Record: Green Hotel Goes Platinum
Travel + Leisure June 2007
BizLife Magazine December 2006
Case Study USGBC Case Study for Proximity's LEED Platinum Certification
Awards
Best Sustainable Design by Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Partnership Award for Innovative Energy Solutions by the Energy Solutions Center (June 2008)
Presentation Watch Dennis Quaintance speak at 2009 Southern Colorado Sustainability Conference.
Press Releases Proximity is first LEED Platinum Hotel in the USA (Oct 2008) Proximity Opens! (Nov 2007) Proximity's Sustainable Practices (Nov 2007) Dennis & Nancy King Quaintance Dennis Quaintance Biography | Nancy King Quaintance Biography
For more information, please contact Mark File, our marketing guy in Greensboro.
Images Below are a few of the high resolution images available. Many more are available upon request.