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Ownership group of Comfort Inn & Suites Pittsburgh Northshore files for bankruptcy protection

WPXI COMFORT INN AND SUITES The exterior of the Comfort Inn and Suites on the North Shore in Pittsburgh. (STEPHEN WAYHART)

PITTSBURGH — A North Side investor partnership that opened a new hotel to anchor the East Ohio Street business district in the middle of the pandemic has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

A company named Arrakis LLC made the filing in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania as the ownership entity of the Comfort Inn & Suites, a 96-room hotel that made its debut in early December 2020.

A representative of the hotel, which operates under the full name Comfort Inn & Suites Pittsburgh - Northshore, confirmed in a phone conversation that the property remains open and operating “as normal” and that the filing has “no effect on the day-to-day operation” of the hotel.

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