NEW ORLEANS — LaPhair Capital Partners and former or current members of the NFL’s New Orleans Saints have partnered to invest in Maidstone New Orleans, a boutique hotel redevelopment located at 3522 Tulane Ave. in New Orleans’ Mid-City district. The involved NFL players include current Saints defensive end Cam Jordan, former quarterback Jameis Winston and former running back Mark Ingram. Local media outlets reported last summer that the hotel was formerly known as The Drifter Hotel and sold in an off-market transaction. Further details about the renovations and offerings of Maidstone New Orleans were not disclosed.
SONOMA, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap Capital Corp. (MMCC) has secured $5 million in refinancing for El Dorado Hotel, a boutique hotel in Sonoma. Bill Lanting arranged the financing with a national bank on behalf of the client, a California-based hospitality management and development group. Terms of the five-year, nonrecourse loan include a 6.9 percent interest rate with a 25 year-amortization. Located at 405 1st St. West, El Dorado Hotel offers 27 guest rooms. Built in 1880, the hotel was recently renovated in 2023. Amenities include a saltwater pool, semi-private balconies, a courtyard and a restaurant and bar.
WILMINGTON, DEL. — Pennsylvania-based MRA Group will develop a 127-room hotel in Wilmington, Del., that will be operated under the Residence Inn by Marriott brand. The hotel will be located on the 164-acre Chestnut Run Innovation & Science Park campus and will feature food service, a full-service bar and meeting/event spaces. Construction will begin this month. A tentative completion date was not announced. Gulph Creek Hotels will manage the property, which will be the first hotel constructed in the area in nearly three years, according to MRA Group.
MIAMI — A partnership locally based firm Mint Developers, hospitality owner-operator Sonesta International Hotels Corp. and property manager AD1 has unveiled plans for an $850 million hotel and residential project in downtown Miami. The James Hotel & Residences in Downtown Miami will comprise 336 fully furnished, for-sale residences and roughly 200 hotel rooms. At 82 stories, the project will be the tallest skyscraper in Miami upon completion, according to the developers. Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2026 and to be complete by early 2028, with residential sales expected to launch in the second quarter of this year. Residents and hotel guests will have access to amenities such as a spa, private cabanas with plunge pools, snow and rain rooms and onsite dining. One of the property’s restaurants will include the highest elevation luxury bar in the Americas. The project will also feature a four-story private club where members will have access to the James Hotel. Financing details were not disclosed, but Daniel Berman, president and CEO of AD1, stated that the first round of funding has been secured and that Sonesta is directly contributing to the financing of the project. Berman also said that the project …
BIG BEAR LAKE, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Black Forest Lodge, a hotel located at 41121 Big Bear Blvd. in Big Bear Lake. Terms of the transaction were not released. Christian Apt, Allan Miller, Chris Gomes and Skyler Cooper of the Miller-Gomes Hotel team at Marcus & Millichap represented the undisclosed seller and procured the undisclosed buyer in the deal. Mario Alvarez of Marcus & Millichap assisted with the transaction, while Tony Solomon of Marcus & Millichap served as the firm’s broker of record in California. Spanning 2.9 acres, Black Forest Lodge features 60 rooms, 2,300 square feet of retail space, a heated pool, spa, sports courts and RV parking. The property has been family-owned since 1976.
INDIANAPOLIS — Barings and affiliates of Apollo have jointly originated a $113 million debt package to refinance the Westin Indianapolis hotel. An affiliate of KSL Capital Partners has owned the downtown property since 2019. The loan was structured with mezzanine and senior mortgage components. Barings funded the mezzanine component of the loan, with Apollo affiliates originating the senior portion. Originally built in 1989, the hotel was fully renovated from 2020 to 2022. The property features 575 guestrooms, 48,300 square feet of total event space, a new food and beverage outlet and a recently renovated fitness center. Eastdil Secured advised the borrower.
WINDHAM, N.Y. — CooperWynn Capital, a Utah-based firm that provides capital advisory services for the hospitality industry, has arranged a $19.5 million loan for the refinancing of Wylder Windham Resort, a 110-room hotel located about 50 miles southwest of Albany. Built in the 1880s and most recently renovated in 2022, the hotel offers various lodge-style accommodations and amenities such as a heated outdoor pool, fitness center, pickleball courts, onsite food-and-beverage options and both indoor and outdoor meeting/event spaces. CooperWynn Capital arranged the nonrecourse, floating-rate loan through Formida Capital on behalf of the owner, Wilder Hotels.
SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASS. — JLL has brokered the sale of Parker Beach Lodge, a 50-room hotel located in the Cape Cod community of South Yarmouth. The hotel, which was renovated between 2021 and 2022, includes two suites and offers amenities such as an outdoor pool and a swim/gift shop. Alan Suzuki, Matthew Enright and Emily Zhang of JLL represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction. The new ownership has tapped Jamsan Hotel Management to oversee operations.
BOSTON — JLL has negotiated the $123 million sale of a Marriott-branded hotel in downtown Boston. The Courtyard Boston Downtown is a 13-story, 315-room hotel that was originally built in 1925 as the headquarters for Boston’s Lodge No. 10 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks. The hotel offers amenities such as an onsite bar and restaurant that pays homage to the building’s original function, as well as a fitness center, business center and 12,684 square feet of meeting and event space. The building also houses approximately 46,000 square feet of retail space. Alan Suzuki, Matthew Enright and Emily Zhang of JLL represented the seller, Ashford Hospitality Trust, in the transaction. The buyer was not disclosed.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a portfolio of two hotels totaling 320 units in Syracuse. The portfolio consists of the 197-room former Holiday Inn Syracuse Liverpool and the 123-room Staybridge Suites Syracuse Liverpool. Hotel amenities include indoor pools, business centers, fitness centers and complimentary airport shuttles. Jerry Swon and Eric Anton of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller in the transaction, and Swon also procured the buyer. Both parties requested anonymity.