BELTON, MO. — The city of Belton has approved development plans for a 95-room Avid Hotel by IHG. The four-story hotel is expected to be the first Avid property to open in the Kansas City area. Completion is slated for the end of 2020. The property will include a fitness room and lobby with “grab-and-go” breakfast. The project team includes developer Liberty Hotel Group, general contractor Genesis Construction Management, architect B+A Architecture and civil engineer Renaissance Infrastructure Consulting.
PROVINCETOWN, MASS. — HFF has arranged an $11.7 million acquisition loan for the 129-room Harbor Hotel Provincetown in Massachusetts. Located at 698 Commercial St., the three-building seasonal boutique hotel includes an outdoor pool, patio, fire pit, cabana bar and pet-friendly rooms as well as an onsite lounge and restaurant. The hotel is less than two miles from the ferry port, which delivers tourists from Boston. Provincetown attracts more than 60,000 tourists each summer. Greg LaBine and Martha Nay of HFF secured a seven-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan on behalf of the borrower, subsidiary entities of funds managed by Linchris Hotel Corp. The lender was HarborOne Bank.
CAMBRIDGE, OHIO — Mumford Co. has negotiated the sale of the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Cambridge, located in eastern Ohio, for an undisclosed price. Built in 2014, the 77-room property features a business center, fitness facility and indoor pool. David Mumford, Justin Pinkard and George Arvanitis of Mumford represented the seller, Cambridge Lodging LLC. Arvanitis procured the buyer, Jannat Investments Inc.
ATLANTA — Hall Structured Finance has provided a $37.5 million construction loan for a new Reverb Hotel in downtown Atlanta. Amenities will include a five-story parking garage; meeting space, a restaurant and a business center on the ground floor; and a rooftop bar with observation deck on the 11th floor. The 195-room hotel is expected to be delivered in February 2020 and will become part of Castleberry Park, a mixed-use development adjacent to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United. Reverb Hotel is a Hardrock Hotels product. Will James of NorthMarq Capital arranged the loan on behalf of the borrower, Bolton Atlanta LP, a hotel owner and developer based in Atlanta.
SAN ANTONIO — Newmark Knight Frank (NKF) has arranged a $27.8 million loan for the refinancing of Courtyard Marriott Riverwalk, a 220-room hotel in San Antonio. The 17-story hotel opened in 2009 and is located within walking distance of San Antonio River Walk, The Alamo, Rivercenter Mall and numerous other dining and shopping options. Amenities include a Starbucks, meeting space, pool, fitness center and a business center. Ben Greazel of NKF’s placed the 10-year loan through New York-based Benefit Street Partners on behalf of the borrower, Finvarb Group, which completed a renovation of the property in 2018.
HULL, MASS. — HFF has brokered the sale of the Nantasket Beach Resort, a 107-room full-service hotel in Hull. The sales price was not disclosed. Located at 45 Hull Shore Drive, the property is 12 miles south of Boston. Renovated in 2016, the oceanfront hotel features private balconies with ocean views, whirlpool baths, an indoor heated pool, fitness center, business center and an arcade. Denny Meikleham, Alan Suzuki and Matthew Enright of HFF represented the seller, Nantasket Resort Inc., in the transaction. The buyer was Newport Hotel Group.
SAN DIEGO — J Street Hospitality, a San Diego-based hotel developer and owner, has purchased Hotel Karlan San Diego – a Doubletree by Hilton, for an undisclosed price. Azul Hospitality Group has been retained to manage the hotel. Located at 14455 Penasquitos Drive in San Diego, the 174-room hotel features a fitness room, swimming pool, tennis court, 24-hour pavilion pantry market and room service. Mark Armstrong of HREC Investment Advisors represented the undisclosed seller in the transaction.
OCEANSIDE, CALIF. — HFF has arranged $155 million in construction financing for the ground-up development of two oceanfront hotels in Oceanside. The developer/borrower is S.D. Malkin Properties. Situated on a 2.7-acre, two-block site along Mission Avenue and North Pacific Street, the two hotels will offer immediate access to the beach and a total of 387 rooms, 85 percent of which will have water views. Destination Resorts will operate one of the hotels, while Joie de Vivre will operate the other. Hyatt owns both brands. The property operated by Destination Resort will feature 226 rooms, a signature restaurant, indoor/outdoor lounge, pool with ocean views, luxury spa and more than 20,000 square feet of meeting and event space. The hotel operated by Joie de Vivre will feature 161 guest rooms, a rooftop pool and bar, a world-class restaurant, public garden and 3,000 square feet of retail space, as well as the historic 1887 Graves House, which will be renovated and open to the public. Timothy Wright, Scott Hall, Olga Walsh and Aaron Lapping of HFF placed the construction financing with Bank OZK and an East Coast-based institutional investor for the borrower.
The Hawaii investment sale market was active in 2018 with an abundance of capital seeking investment opportunities throughout the state and across all product types. Mortgage availability from local banks and non-local financiers remained strong, and there was a steady flow of new interest from debt and equity sources looking for first opportunities in Hawaii. Last year’s transaction volume (including entity level) was up 33 percent from 2017 to $5.5 billion. Institutional and cross-border investment volumes were up from 2017 and performing well above the 10-year average. It was a slower year for private investors and REITs, though institutional capital from Singapore, Zurich, Kuwait, Germany and Japan were the foreign standouts in 2018. Entity-level activity boosted Hawaii’s transaction volume significantly in 2018. We anticipate this story to continue to spill over into Hawaii through 2019 as institutions deploy large amounts of capital to build scale. Brookfield’s acquisition of GGP was the largest entity-level transaction, which included the 2.5 million-square-foot Ala Moana Center with its two office buildings consisting of about 400,000 square feet, the Whalers Village in Maui and the Prince Kuhio Plaza in Hilo. The hospitality sector led the charge for the third year in a row with $2.45 …
STOWE, VT. — Real estate investment, development and management firm AWH Partners has acquired the Topnotch Resort and Spa in Stowe. The sales price was undisclosed. Set on 100 acres of woodland and the foot of Mount Mansfield, Topnotch Resort includes 68 guestrooms, a 35,000-square-foot spa and two full-service restaurants. The resort also features four indoor and six outdoor tennis courts as well as a whirlpool/Jacuzzi and two outdoor pools with mountain views. The property was named by U.S. News & World Reportas best hotel in Vermont of 2017. AWH’s hospitality management company is now managing the resort.