{"id":275522,"date":"2018-05-08T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=275522"},"modified":"2018-05-08T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T20:00:57","slug":"hyatt-gm-we-want-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hyatt-gm-we-want-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyatt GM: We want to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_275523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275523\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nishikawa-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-275523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hyatt Regency Saipan general manager Nick Nishikawa addresses the crowd in last week\u2019s check donation to six groups that are the recipients of proceeds from last month\u2019s 22nd Annual Hyatt Charity Golf Classic at the Giovanni\u2019s Restaurant. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hyatt Regency Saipan\u2019s land lease is more than three years away from expiring but this early general manager Nick Nishikawa has assured it is the company\u2019s intention to stay and continue doing business on Saipan. Hyatt\u2019s lease is set to expire on December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Nishikawa said Hyatt has been on the island for 37 years, becoming a witness to Saipan\u2019s economic boom and downturn. \u201cWe\u2019re one of the businesses that stayed through the good times and the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came here in 2008 and the business back then was bad. We survived and did not fire any staff but continued to hire. We want to be here after the end of December 2021. We want to continue to fly Hyatt\u2019s flag here,\u201d Nishikawa added.<\/p>\n<p>He told Saipan Tribune that they are hoping to get a favorable response and decision from the Department of Public Lands once the process of renewing Hyatt\u2019s lease comes up in three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is still three years away and we haven\u2019t done anything yet. There is no directive yet from the authorities. We\u2019re just making our appeal and telling the public that we want to stay on,\u201d said Nishikawa.<\/p>\n<p>He added that if their lease is renewed, Hyatt\u2019s parent company\u2014Hyatt Hotels Corp.\u2014could begin plans to renovate and improve the current structure. \u201cThe building is getting old. It\u2019s now 37 years old. We need to maintain this building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs one of the international hotel chains, Hyatt is located all over the world. We need to renovate for our guests. We just want to give the guests the real standard Hyatt hotel experience.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>He added that they are looking at an extension of Hyatt\u2019s land lease so they could push forward with their projects of improving their facilities to accommodate the growing number of tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyatt Regency Saipan\u2019s land lease is more than three years away from expiring but this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":275523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,21097,524,2331],"class_list":["post-275522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-business-3","tag-hyatt-hotels-corp","tag-nick-nishikawa","tag-public-lands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}