Dayton Grand Hotel remains closed downtown

The acting general manager could not give an exact opening date and would not say what renovations the 120-year-old hotel are undergoing.

In 2015, hotel officials announced they were undergoing $3 million to $5 million in renovations to all of its rooms and plans to rebuild its swimming pool, re-open its restaurant and convert to a Double Tree by Hilton.

The hotel did not convert to a Double Tree by Hilton and has struggled as a private hotel.

The Dayton Grand Hotel originally became a Double Tree hotel in 2013. The shift was short-lived, with the owners returning it to a private hotel, and business suffered, Eric Minshall, the general manager in 2015, said at the time.

“In an eight-month stretch after going back to being independent, the hotel lost 80 percent of its business,” Minshall said.