SAN DIEGO — A partnership between Pebblebrook Hotel Trust (NYSE: PEB) and Margaritaville Holdings will open a 462-room beachfront hotel and resort in San Diego. The Margartitaville Island Resort San Diego will be located on the 44-acre Vacation Island in the city’s Mission Bay area. The site is the current home of Paradise Point Resort & Spa, which will be renovated and converted to the Margaritaville hotel. Project costs are estimated at $35 million. The hotel will feature a mile of beachfront with views overlooking the marina and bay, as well Margaritaville food and beverage concepts. Other amenities will include five pools, tennis courts, a spa, fitness center and 80,000 square feet of meeting space. “Our island resort offers a unique San Diego beach experience in a secluded, yet centrally situated location to nearby downtown San Diego, SeaWorld, Balboa Park, Seaport Village and other top attractions,” says Jon Bortz, president and CEO of Pebblebrook. “The Margaritaville lifestyle brand is synonymous with fun and escapism and we expect a dramatic improvement in financial performance of Paradise Point upon reflagging.” Maryland-based Pebblebrook acquired Paradise Point Resort & Spa in 2018. The new Margaritaville hotel, which will be the brand’s first on the West …
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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Greysteel has arranged an undisclosed amount of construction financing for a 71-room hotel project in Austin. The hotel will be located at the intersection of Tech Ridge Boulevard and East Yager Lane and will be operated under InterContinental Hotels Group’s Avid brand. Mitt Patel and Daniel Hartnett of Greysteel arranged the loan, which carries a seven-year term, on behalf of the undisclosed borrower. Construction is underway and expected to be complete by the end of 2020.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Knighthead Funding LLC, a Connecticut-based private lender, has provided a $37.7 million construction loan for the completion of a hotel conversion project in Cambridge, located across the Charles River from Boston. The project involves the conversion of a four-story multifamily building into a 67-room hotel that will house ground-floor retail space and features a rooftop lounge. Hay Creek will manage the new hotel, which is slated to open in the first quarter of 2020. Knighthead provided the 24-month loan to a local partnership operating as Sean Casey LLC.
BOSTON — Locally based developer Related Beal has opened a 65-room Whitney hotel located at the corner of Charles and Cambridge streets in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. The luxury boutique hotel also houses four premium suites and is attached to a new Mediterranean-style restaurant called Peregrine. Other amenities include a fitness studio, outdoor courtyard and rentable sailboats and bikes. Boston-based Hacin + Associates was the project architect, and Harrisburg, Pa.-based Hersha Hospitality Management will operate the property.
PLYMOUTH, MASS. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $5.8 million sale of a three-story, 67-room Comfort Inn hotel in Plymouth, located south of Boston. Marcus & Millichap’s Jerry Swon, Daniel Zagoria and Cameron Pierce represented the seller, a family trust that owned the property for several decades, and the undisclosed buyer. The hotel, which is located off Route 3, is franchised under Choice Hotels, which operates more than 6,300 hotels across 35 countries and territories.
ATLANTA — WRS Inc. will bring a 351-room Yotel-branded hotel to Underground Atlanta, a four-block redevelopment in south downtown Atlanta. The hotel will offer 234 rooms for short-stay guests and 117 rooms, known as YotelPad, for long-stay guests. Construction is slated to begin in summer 2020 with delivery scheduled for fall 2022. The new Yotel will offer a grab-and-go café, swimming pool, rooftop terrace and bar, self-check-in kiosks and SmartBeds. When complete, Underground Atlanta will have more than 400,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, entertainment, office and residential space, according to WRS.
PORTLAND, ORE. — George Smith Partners has secured a $460 million construction loan on behalf of BPM Real Estate Group (BPM) for Block 216, a planned 1.1 million-square-foot mixed-use project in downtown Portland. The project was announced in June. Ritz-Carlton will anchor the 35-story tower, offering the first five-star hotel in the state of Oregon. An affiliate of Mosaic Real Estate Investors funded the four-year loan. George Smith Partners’ Malcolm Davies and Zachary Streit, along with other members of the firm’s Los Angeles office, sourced the financing on behalf of BPM founder Walter Bowen. The Block 216 project will encompass a full city block. In addition to the 251-room hotel, the tower also will include138 branded Ritz-Carlton Residences, 140,000 square feet of office space and 7,800 square feet of ground-floor retail. Portland-based BPM will begin construction of Block 216 this summer and host a groundbreaking on July 12. Construction is scheduled for completion in 2023.
NEW YORK CITY — Eastern Consolidated has topped out a 531-room, dual-branded hotel in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan that will include the by Springhill Suites and TownePlace Suites brands. Designed by Gene Kaufman Architects, the 46-story property will ultimately span 178,000 square feet upon completion, which is slated for the end of 2019, according to local media sources. The two hotels will have separate lobbies, but will share a 1,500-square-foot public arcade, fitness center, meeting rooms and dining rooms. The property will also be located near several public transit lines, as well as Madison Square Garden and the Hudson Yards mixed-use development.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of a 62-room Country Inn & Suites hotel located at 2730 Cherry Lane in Fort Worth. Joseph Jacques and Chris Gomes of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. The duo also procured the buyer, a private investor. Additional terms of sale were not disclosed.
DUBLIN, OHIO — Commonwealth Hotels has acquired the Courtyard Columbus-Dublin for an undisclosed price. The 147-room hotel is located within five miles of the Muirfield Village Golf Club, a Jack Nicklaus-designed course that is home of the Memorial Tournament, a yearly PGA event. It is also situated 17 miles from downtown Columbus. The hotel includes three meeting rooms spanning more than 1,200 square feet. Guests have access to a fitness center, pool and free Wi-Fi. The seller was not disclosed. Marriott operates the Courtyard brand. Commonwealth Hotels currently manages 48 properties with nearly 5,600 rooms.