KYLE, TEXAS — Extended Stay America has opened a 124-room hotel in Kyle, located roughly midway between Austin and San Antonio. Extended Stay will operate the hotel under its Premier Suites brand. Houston-based Provident Realty Advisors developed the four-story hotel, which offers complimentary breakfast, onsite guest laundry services, a 24-hour fitness room and additional vending options in the lobby.
BOSTON — JLL has brokered the sale of the 80-room Boxer Hotel located at 107 Merrimac St. in Boston’s West End. The nine-story hotel was originally built in 1904 and last renovated in 2013. Additional upgrades to certain common areas and amenity spaces were completed in 2020. Amenities include a fitness center, bike rental program and an onsite restaurant and bar. Alan Suzuki, Matthew Enright and Emily Zhang of JLL represented the seller, Hersha Hotels & Resorts, in the transaction. The buyer was Eurostars Hotel Co.
COLLIERVILLE, TENN. — Hunter Hotel Advisors has negotiated the sale of the 131-room Courtyard by Marriott Memphis Collierville hotel located within the Carriage Crossing lifestyle shopping center in Collierville. Tim Osborne and Adeel Amin of Hunter facilitated the transaction and secured a $8.7 million bridge loan on behalf of the buyer, a Texas-based investor. The seller was an entity doing business as Southern Hospitality LLC. Situated near the FedEx World Technology Center, the four-story hotel includes 1,624 square feet of meeting space, an indoor swimming pool, fitness center and a full-service restaurant called The Bistro.
By Sean Slater, senior principal, RDC Architecture & Planning In today’s evolving retail landscape, one of the most promising — and often overlooked — opportunities lies in the land surrounding our nation’s hospitals and medical centers. As healthcare systems continue to expand and consolidate, savvy development executives recognize the immense potential of strategically positioning retail properties in locations that are adjacent to major medical facilities. Doing so combines consistent foot traffic, demographic advantages and an urgent need for community-focused amenities. This was the scenario that RDC’s placemaking design team faced at the Texas Medical Center’s (TMC) new TMC3 research and development campus south of the massive healthcare cluster near downtown Houston. On any given day at that sprawling site, more than 100,000 people — about the seating capacity of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum — come to work, while 27,400 patients visit one of the 21 associated hospitals. Many of them are international visitors staying at local hotels with significant downtime. Kristen Kupperman, TMC’s vice president of design, construction and facilities, introduced RDC’s design team to this problem, saying that there are 80,000 women who work at TMC every day, yet there is nowhere to get a manicure and nowhere …
NASHVILLE, TENN. — Ashford Hospitality Trust Inc. has obtained a $218.1 million loan to refinance Renaissance Hotel, a 673-room hotel located at 611 Commerce St. in Nashville. Built in 1987, the hotel features meeting and event space, a club lounge, Little Fib Bar, a 24-hour market and a third-floor bar and restaurant in a glass atrium called Bridge Bar, according to the hotel website. The two-year, non-recourse loan refinanced the existing $267.2 million mortgage. The undisclosed lender underwrote the loan with three one-year extension options and a floating interest rate of SOFR + 2.26 percent, which is 172 basis points lower than the interest rate on the previous loan. In conjunction with the debt refinancing, Ashford Hospitality increased the preferred equity investment on the hotel by $53 million.
TAMPA, FLA. — Rockpoint and Newbond Holdings have acquired Westin Tampa Waterside, a waterfront hotel in downtown Tampa. The seller and sales price were not disclosed. The 309-room property is situated on a 1.5-acre site and is the only hotel on the city’s Harbour Island. Westin Tampa is within walking distance of the Tampa Convention Center, Water Street District, Sparkman Wharf and the University of Tampa. Amenities include a fitness studio, heated outdoor pool, multiple dining and bar options and meeting and social event space. Rockpoint and Newbond Holdings plan to renovate Westin Tampa’s guest rooms, lobby and meeting space.
DEER VALLEY, UTAH — PACE Equity has funded a $63.3 million mid-construction recapitalization using long-term, fixed-rate C-PACE financing for SkyRidge Resort in Deer Valley. SkyRidge Development is developing SkyRidge Resort. Designed for four seasons, SkyRidge Resort will offer the Stelle Lodge, a six-story resort with a rooftop bar, spa and guest services; a 310-yard golfing range with 15 hitting bays, a three-hole mountain golf course that converts into a nine-hole short course and the Golf Clubhouse with a bar and restaurant, grocer café and curated retail; and an Equestrian Center with a 34-stall barn, indoor and outdoor arena, a European walking path and scenic riding trails. SkyRidge Golf and Clubhouse are slated to open in late 2025, with theStelle Lodge scheduled to open in 2026.
TAMPA, FLA. — South Florida-based Two Roads Development has received $520 million in construction financing for Pendry Tampa and Pendry Residences Tampa, a hospitality and residential project that will be located in the city’s downtown area. Pendry is a luxury hospitality operating platform and a division of California-based Montage International. New York City-based Sculptor Capital Management and Connecticut-based Nuveen Green Capital provided the financing. The latter’s $290 million contribution came in the form of Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing. “We are thrilled to have closed the largest C-PACE transaction in history, partnering with Two Roads Development and Sculptor Capital on this transformative luxury property that will redefine Tampa’s skyline,” says Ryan Doyle, senior director of originations at Nuveen Green Capital. “This historic milestone showcases the growing sophistication and scale of C-PACE financing and its capacity to support major developments.” “Awareness of what’s happening in the Tampa Bay region is growing each year, and we received tremendous interest from across the nation to finance this development,” adds Taylor Collins, managing partner of South Florida-based Two Roads Development. Designed by Arquitectonica with interiors by Studio Munge, Pendry Tampa and Pendry Residences Tampa will be housed within a 38-story high-rise building …
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Texas-based hospitality owner-operator NewcrestImage has opened the 105-room Seahaus Hotel in Atlantic City. The boutique hotel, which occupies a full city block along the city’s boardwalk and includes 6,600 square feet of retail space, will be operated as part of Marriott’s Tribute Portfolio family of brands. In addition to multiple onsite food-and-beverage options, the hotel offers a fitness center, live weekend entertainment and customized golf, boating and wellness options through local vendor partners.
MIAMI — Funds managed by Trinity Investments and Certares Real Estate Management have sold EAST Miami, a 352-room hotel located within the $1.1 billion Brickell City Centre mixed-use development. Funds affiliated with Blackstone Real Estate purchased the hotel for an undisclosed price. Built in 2016, EAST Miami features guest rooms, 89 serviced apartments and Sugar, a rooftop bar and dining venue. Trinity Investments and Certares acquired the property in 2021 from Swire Properties, the master developer of Brickell City Centre. Swire Hotels continues to operate the hotel under the company’s EAST hospitality brand.