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AKA hotels
Furnished residences bridge a short hotel visit and a longer life with a kitchen.
AKA sits between a hotel stay and life in an apartment, with furnished residences designed for guests who want to settle in for longer. Its roots lie in the Korman family’s Philadelphia property business, where requests to rent furnished apartments for months at a time helped shape a collection that now reaches across the United States and Europe.
14 AKA hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Korman Communities
- Worldwide: 4 operating nightly-stay Hotel AKA properties — Back Bay, Boston Common, NoMad, and West Palm — plus 9 residence-led addresses excluded from Maison's hotel denominator. Official AKA locator
- On the atlas: 5 Accessible Luxury, 9 Near Luxury
History
The Korman family found a need between the daily hotel stay and the annual apartment lease when guests began asking to rent furnished Philadelphia residences for months at a time. AKA developed around that middle ground, with full kitchens and separate living and sleeping spaces for travelers who want to feel at home. The family’s later work with Airbnb Luxe continued its interest in new ways to offer a longer stay.
Timeline
- 1919 — Hyman Korman founds the family real estate business in Philadelphia, the root of what becomes Korman Communities.
- Early 1960s — Steven Korman and his father build a high-rise on a triangular lot in Center City Philadelphia; unable to easily sell the pie-shaped condo units, Steven furnishes several to show their potential, and guests begin asking to rent them for months at a time
- 1987 — The family formalizes the furnished-apartment concept as Korman Suites, the first branded furnished-apartment portfolio in the country.
- 1995 — Steven Korman and his sons Larry and Brad form Korman Communities as a standalone company to expand the concept beyond Philadelphia.
- 1997 — The historic building at 222 W. Rittenhouse Square is purchased and renamed Rittenhouse 222, becoming the first Korman property operated as 100 percent furnished suites, the direct precursor to AKA.
- 2004 — Korman Communities opens a luxury extended-stay residence near the United Nations in Midtown Manhattan and puts the AKA name on the brand for the first time.
The houses to know
- AKA White House, Washington, United States — A converted office building gives these residences a Washington base two blocks from the White House.
- Hotel AKA Back Bay, Boston, United States — The former Boston Police Department headquarters, an Italian Renaissance Revival limestone building that patrolled the city from 1926 to 1990 before Korman's 2022 debut in the city.
- Hotel AKA Boston Common, Boston, United States — A 19-story tower off Boston Common, formerly the Kimpton Nine Zero, bought by Korman's Electra America affiliate for $82.6 million in January 2023.
- Hotel AKA Washington Circle, Washington, D.C., United States — A 75-room extended-stay property on Washington Circle, a short walk from George Washington University and the State Department.
- AKA Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, United States — The direct descendant of Rittenhouse 222, the 1997 building that launched the AKA concept.
Newest openings
- Hotel AKA West Palm — West Palm Beach, United States — opened 2023.
Opening next
- No confirmed announcements were identified in the sources reviewed through 2026-08-28.
Every AKA hotel on the atlas
United States
- AKA Rittenhouse Square — Philadelphia · Accessible Luxury
- AKA White House — Washington, D.C. · Accessible Luxury
- Hotel AKA Back Bay — Boston · Accessible Luxury
- Hotel AKA Boston Common — Boston · Accessible Luxury
- Hotel AKA Washington Circle — Washington, D.C. · Accessible Luxury
- AKA Beverly Hills — Beverly Hills · Near Luxury
- AKA Central Park — New York City · Near Luxury
- AKA Sutton Place — New York City · Near Luxury
- AKA Times Square — New York City · Near Luxury
- AKA United Nations — New York City · Near Luxury
- AKA University City — Philadelphia · Near Luxury
- AKA West Hollywood — West Hollywood · Near Luxury
- Hotel AKA NoMad — New York City · Near Luxury
- Hotel AKA West Palm — West Palm Beach · Near Luxury
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