EAST TROY, WIS. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.7 million sale of the Quality Inn & Suites in East Troy, about 35 miles southwest of Milwaukee. Built in 1999, the 51-room hotel is located at 2921 O’Leary Lane. The property spans 38,660 square feet. Ebrahim Valliani, John Yurich, Allan Miller and Chris Gomes of Marcus & Millichap’s Chicago Oak Brook office marketed the hotel on behalf of the seller, a private investor. The team also secured and represented the buyer, a private investor. Todd Lindblom assisted on the transaction as the broker of record in Marcus & Millichap’s Wisconsin office.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) sent a letter to the U.S. Congress on Monday requesting more funds for small business hotels across the country. According to a report from AHLA, small business hotels won’t be able to bring back laid off employees or prevent further layoffs with the current funds offered by the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Small Business Association (SBA) initiative established by the CARES Act. The PPP funds cover 47 percent of a hotel’s operating costs, the AHLA says in the letter. The Washington, D.C.-based organization also reports 61 percent of U.S. hotels, approximately 33,000 properties — are defined as small businesses. The letter was signed by more than 13,000 hotel owners. AHLA projects that 2020 hotel occupancy will go as low as 38 percent, the lowest figure since the Great Depression. Furthermore, the report finds that hotel staff nationwide has been cut by 70 percent since mid-March. AHLA states even after recovery begins, the hotel sector will not generate significant revenue to cover costs, given that hotel occupancy is not projected to return to pre-crisis levels before 2021 and revenue won’t return to pre-crisis levels until 2022.
FISHERS, IND. — Thompson Thrift Retail Group (TTRG) has sold the hotel pad site at The Stations, a $60 million mixed-use development in the Indianapolis suburb of Fishers. The buyer, Indiana-based Dunn Hospitality, plans to open a $20 million, 145-room Courtyard by Marriott hotel in late 2021. The Courtyard hotel will include meeting space, fitness facilities, an indoor pool and bistro bar. Later this year, TTRG plans to break ground on a Class A, four-story office building within The Stations. The company is also completing initial site work on the back portion of the project for Pulte Homes to begin development of 37 three-story, for-sale townhomes. The Stations is adjacent to Fishers District, a TTRG project with more than 100,000 square feet of retail and dining space, 260 multifamily units and a dual-branded Hyatt Place and Hyatt House hotel.
MCLEAN, VA. — As COVID-19 continues to sweep across the United States, Hilton Hotels has teamed up with Lysol and Mayo Clinic to implement its new Hilton CleanStay with Lysol Protection program this summer. The new initiative aims to “provide guests with assurance and peace of mind” when they visit a Hilton property. RB, Lysol’s parent company, will work with the McLean-based hotel chain to launch a cleaning system in an effort to keep guests safe and healthy. Experts from Mayo Clinic’s Infection Prevention and Control team will advise and assist in enhancing Hilton’s cleaning and disinfection protocols. Some features of the program include a Hilton CleanStay Room Seal, a seal on doors notifying guests the room has not been entered since it was thoroughly cleaned; extra disinfectant on what Hilton deems high-touch areas, including light switches, doors handles, TV remotes and thermostats; removing items such as pens, paper and guest directories, which will be available digitally or upon request; and the Clean and Clean Again program, which increases the frequency of cleaning in public areas. Hilton’s portfolio includes 18 brands and 6,100 properties worldwide. Others in the hospitality sector taking extra measures include Marriott International and Airbnb. Marriott created …
CHICAGO — A partnership between North Park Ventures and MF Development has purchased a nearly 20,000-square-foot land site in Chicago’s Fulton Market district for $19 million. The partnership plans to redevelop the site into a hotel and retail project. The sale included three existing properties: a two-story restaurant building at 204 N. Halsted St., a three-story restaurant building at 804-808 W. Lake St., and a two-story retail building and adjacent parking lot at 810-816 W. Lake St. Marty Casey and Matt Scales of @properties Commercial arranged the sale and worked with three different sellers to assemble the site.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has continued to clobber the hotel sector as industry experts say 70 percent of workers have been furloughed and eight in 10 rooms are vacant, according to a survey conducted by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA). The data from the survey also leads the AHLA to project that vacancy rates in 2020 will be the lowest (38 percent) since the Great Depression. The vacancy rate was 66 percent from 2017 to 2019. “Hotels were one of the first industries affected by the pandemic and will be one of the last to recover,” said Chip Rogers, president and CEO of AHLA. The survey also reports that the full-service hotels that are remaining open are operating on average with a 14-person staff, a fraction of the average 50-person staff pre-crisis. Resort hotels, which often operate seasonally based on peak tourism months and averaged about 90 employees per location as recently as March 13, are down to an average of five employees per resort today. As of this writing, there were 49,963 deaths and 869,172 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University (JHU).
KINGDOM CITY, MO. — Mumford Co. has negotiated the sale of a 60-room Super 8 hotel in Kingdom City, approximately 25 miles east of Columbia. The sales price was not disclosed. The three-story property is located near I-70. George Arvanitis of Mumford represented the seller, CapeInn LLC, and procured the buyer, Americas Value Inn LLC. The buyer intends to rebrand the property as Amerihost Inn & Suites.
MCMINNVILLE, ORE. — McMinnville Properties, which Bill Stoller of Stoller Wine Group owns, has purchased a 285-acre campus in McMinnville. The site houses Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, Wings & Waves Waterpark, The Lodge event and wedding venue, 220 acres of established vineyards and farmland, and a development site designed to accommodate a 99,000-square-foot hotel. The campus is located at 500 NE Captain Michael King Smith Way, 23 miles southwest of Portland and 30 minutes north of Salem. Salt Lake City-based Falls Event Center sold the asset for $9.5 million. Adam Taylor and Buzz Ellis of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller in the deal. The five-parcel property was been a tourist attraction since the aviation portion of the museum, which was not included in the sale, opened in 1991. Currently, the campus features original aviation museum plus the 120,000-square-foot Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, which was added in 2008; Wings & Waves Waterpark, an all-season, family-friendly park that opened in 2011; and The Lodge, a former chapel with a 150-person capacity and event space. The asset also includes established agricultural land featuring a mix of vines and feed grass that is harvested by a third party. Additionally, the campus …
FLORISSANT, MO. — Tarlton Corp. has completed the conversion of a Quality Inn hotel in Florissant into the state’s first alternate care facility to treat non-acute COVID-19 patients. The facility, if needed, will serve as backup for patients referred by St. Louis-area hospitals. Members of the Missouri National Guard will staff the facility. Tarlton worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the project, as well as Ross & Baruzzini, Rock Hill Mechanical Corp. and Guarantee Electrical Co. The 4.5-day project yielded more than 100 patient rooms on the four floors of the 130-room hotel. The team built a nurse’s station on each floor and turned the existing phone system into a nurse call system. The project assignment came just hours after Tarlton President Tracy Hart and COO Dirk Elsperman lost their father, Bob Elsperman, to COVID-19. Bob Elsperman led Tarlton from 1972 to1999. He was admitted to a St. Louis-area hospital on March 30 and died eight days later at the age of 83.
NORTH HILLS, CALIF. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of Motel 6 Los Angeles – Van Nuys – North Hills, located at 15711 Roscoe Blvd. in North Hills. A limited liability company sold the asset to a private investor for $9 million. The hotel features 131,412 square feet of space. Brandon Michaels, Steven Schechter and Sean Brandt of Marcus & Millichap’s Encino, Calif., office represented the seller and buyer in the transaction.