Frenchman’s Reef To Hire More Than 400

When renovations are complete, the new Frenchman’s Reef hotel complex will employ more than 400 Virgin Islanders, company officials said Monday.

A job fair will get the hiring process started Oct. 25 at UVI’s Sports and Fitness Center in St. Thomas, said Kurt Wiksten, Frenchman’s Reef’s managing director.

The start-work date is still up in the air however, Wiksten said. Plano, Texas-based Aimbridge Hospitality, the hotel’s management company, and Marriott International had said it would reopen in autumn but that timeline has been pushed back. A soft open was planned for December, but just when and how soft is yet unclear.

“We are still working to confirm this. At the moment, we are targeting this winter,” Wiksten said, adding the hotel complex will likely be fully operational again before the end of March.