DAYTON, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Dayton-Huber Heights for $5.9 million. The 65-room hotel is located at 5610 Merily Way in Dayton. Andrew Bankhurst and Alexandre Duong of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. The team also secured and represented the buyer, a limited liability company.
TAMPA, FLA. — Bromley Cos. has partnered with Concord Hospitality to build the dual-branded Aloft and Element hotel within the $500 million Midtown Tampa development. The seven-story Marriott hotel will share 226 rooms, a rooftop terrace and swimming pool. Additionally, the hotel will feature meeting space on the seventh floor, a 1,000-square-foot fitness center and 24,000 square feet of street-level retail space. The joint venture plans to break ground this summer with anticipated completion slated for 2021. The Bromley Cos. and Concord Hospitality are teaming with Casto Southeast Realty Services, Jeffrey Anderson Real Estate Co. and Crescent Communities to develop Midtown Tampa, a 1.8 million-square-foot mixed-use project that will feature office, hotel, residential and retail space, including a new Whole Foods Market, True Food Kitchen and REI.
COMMACK, N.Y. — The commercial real estate group of community bank Washington Trust has provided a $13.5 million loan for the refinancing of a 143-room Hampton Inn hotel located in Commack, a city on Long Island. The five-story hotel, which was built in 1988, is situated near the Long Island Expressway and offers standard amenities such as a pool, fitness center, a business center and meeting space. The borrower, an affiliate of hospitality owner-operator Chartwell Hotels, will use part of the proceeds to upgrade the lobby, refurnish the guestrooms and expand the exercise room. Specific loan terms were not disclosed.
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Acres Capital Corp. has provided a $37 million bridge loan to complete the construction and stabilization of the Canandaigua Finger Lakes Resort, a Hilton-branded resort in Canandaigua. Located at 205 Lakeshore Drive, the property will include 109 guest rooms, 44 residential condominium units, a restaurant and a 13,000-square-foot conference space. Mark Fogel of Acres provided the financing to developers Robert Murphy and David Genecco. Hospitality management firm Hay Creek Hotels and Restaurants will handle the design, development and operations of the resort.
WAILEA, HAWAII — Ike Place Hotels and R.D. Olson Construction have started the ground-up construction of AC Hotel Wailea, a four-story estate hotel located at the corner of Wailea Ike Place and Wailea Ike Drive in Wailea. Situated on three acres, the 70,000-square-foot property will feature 110 guestrooms including one-bedroom suites and studio options, a business center, fitness area and infinity-edge pool with a poolside tiki bar and cabanas. The property will features a Polynesian design with modern flare and offer guests ocean-view and mountain-view room options with private lanais. Additionally, the property will feature indoor/outdoor lounge spaces and an 85-car parking lot. The project team includes R.D. Olson Development, Architects Hawaii Limited and SAND Design. Completion is slated for fall 2020.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Cadence McShane Construction Co. has completed an 86-room, dual-branded Best Western Plus and Executive Residency by Best Western hotel in Austin. The four-story property is located near the downtown area and features kitchenettes for extended-stay experiences in select rooms. Shared amenities among the two brands include a pool, fitness center and a gaming lawn. Local firm TAG International served as the project architect, and 28 Hospitality LLC will operate the hotel.
BRASELTON, GA. — Chateau Elan Winery & Resort will undergo a $25 million renovation, which is scheduled for completion in November. Atlanta-based Blur Workshop will lead the transformation, which will introduce a modern design while delivering a Southern concept with French undertones. The renovation will overhaul 251 guestrooms, 24 suites, the resort lobby, winery and four new food and beverage vendors. An affiliate of Connecticut-based Wheelock Street Capital bought the winery in January 2018. Chateau Elan is situated 46 miles northeast of Atlanta and offers guests 40,000 square feet of meeting space, a 35,000-square-foot spa, 45 holes of golf and a tennis center.
CAMPBELL, CALIF. — Sonnenblick-Eichner Co. has secured $36.3 million in first mortgage financing for the acquisition of DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Campbell – Pruneyard Plaza, a 169-room full-service hotel in downtown Campbell. The undisclosed borrower used the long-term, fixed-rate loan to facilitate the purchase of the hotel and provide funds for a $5.8 million renovation. The 12-year loan, which a life insurance company provided, features a 4.5 percent interest rate with four years of interest-only payments and a 30-year amortization schedule.
CONROE, TEXAS — A partnership between Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Holdings LLC, Atlanta-based Songy Highroads and Baton Rouge, La.-based The Wampold Cos. will open a 360-room Margaritaville Resort at Lake Conroe, about an hour north of Houston. The property, which will be the first Margaritaville-branded project in Texas, will be situated on a 186-acre site that is currently home to La Torretta Lake Resort & Spa. The development team will undertake a renovation project to convert two of the existing restaurants to signature Margaritaville dining concepts, and to refresh the golf course, tennis facilities, spa and outdoor pools. The opening is slated for the third quarter of 2020.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A partnership between Metrovest Equities Inc. and BLDG Management has acquired the Liaison Washington Capitol Hill, a 343-room hotel in the Capitol Hill submarket of Washington, D.C., for $111 million. Located at 415 New Jersey Ave., the property is the closest hotel to the U.S. Capitol building. It is within walking distance of Union Station, the National Mall, Georgetown University Law Center and the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Amenities include an on-site restaurant, swimming pool, patio with fire pit, meeting and event space, and fitness center. The buyer plans to convert the hotel into the Yotelpad Capitol Hill. Yotel is a lifestyle-oriented hospitality concept. This will be the first Yotel extended-stay project in Washington, D.C. Daniel Peek and Cyrus Vazifdar of HFF marketed the property on behalf of the seller, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB). Scott Aiese and Chris Hew of HFF arranged a bridge loan with a life insurance company for the acquisition. Pebblebrook is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that acquires and invests in upscale, full-service hotels in urban markets. The Bethesda, Md.-based company owns 61 hotels totaling approximately 14,600 rooms. The company’s stock price closed at $31.60 per share on April …