Our History

In January 2006 Lighthouse Properties acquired The Raphael Hotel, Kansas City's Original Boutique Hotel on Country Club Plaza. The Raphael has been voted one of the top 500 hotels in the world by Travel & Leisure magazine. It has also earned a Conde Nast recommendation as one of the world's best places to stay. The Raphael is patterned after Europe's finest boutique hotels.

 

Our Homewood Suites, nestled lakeside at Wichita's upscale Waterfront Parkway, opened in July 2006. This Homewood Suites property is not your typical Homewood, featuring a uniquely distinctive exterior and interior design that far exceeds Hilton standards. This extended stay hotel offers 104 suites including spacious studios, one bedroom suites, 2 bedroom/2 bath suites and 5 themed presidential suites with whirlpool spas. In the first two years the hotel has received numorous awards from Hilton on hotel opening, guest service, complimentary services, suitekeeping and runner up for hotel of the year.

 

In 2009, we will open our new Hilton Garden Inn. This beautiful and well-appointed hotel will be directly across the street from the Fitzsimons Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado. The medical park is the first of its kind west of the Mississippi and is slated to grow to over four million square feet with a workforce of 26,000. Our Hilton Garden Inn will offer 175 rooms and suites, a full service restaurant, and 5,000 square feet of meeting and banquet space.