The M&R Companies history

The story begins with M&R Hotel Group, a development company focused on acquiring and building hotels in the New York metropolitan area and beyond, that was founded in 1992 by Madhu Patni and the late Rajendra Gandhi.

In 1999, M&R acquired Amscomatic, a world-leader in post-press screen printing equipment, and NuArc, the world's foremost maker of screen printing and lithographic prepress imaging equipment.

Amit Gandhi and Manish Patni are fully vested in all aspects of development and serve as principals of M&R Hotel Management, a company created in 2001 to serve as the operating arm of M&R Hotel Group.

Also in 2005, M&R Hotel Group purchased three limited-service hotels – an 87-room Best Western, a 128-room Holiday Inn Express and a 73-room Days Inn – adjacent to one another near John F. Kennedy International Airport off South Conduit Avenue in Jamaica, New York.

M&R assumed management of the newly constructed 93-room Comfort Inn Staten Island and 95-room Holiday Inn Express Staten Island West in 2008.

Only the sixth Hyatt hotel in New York City, it opened in 2013 and was sold later that year.

M&R Hotel Group constructed the 103-room Holiday Inn Staten Island on Wild Avenue, which opened in 2014.

M&R opened the 271-room Holiday Inn New York City – Times Square at 585 Eighth Ave. in 2015 and the 226-room Fairfield Inn & Suites New York Manhattan/Central Park at 538 W. 58th St one year later.