Floridays still standing with Ovation

When the new 162-room Art Ovation Hotel held a preview event in mid-December in advance of opening early next month in downtown Sarasota, press reports left out one prominent Gulf Coast player.

Developers Prime Hospitality Group, of Hollywood, and Pennsylvania-based Shaner Hotels were featured, but Sarasota's Floridays Development Co. wasn't.

Floridays' CEO Angus Rogers says the company, which has been working to develop a lodging property on the formerly city-owned site at 1255 N. Palm Ave. since 2012, remains very much involved.