ROCKLAND, MASS. — Hilton Worldwide has open DoubleTree by Hilton Boston-Rockland, located at 929 Hingham St. in Rockland on Massachusetts’ South Shore. Located 21 miles south of Boston Logan International Airport, the hotel features 127 guest rooms, 24-hour room service, a fitness center, business center and an outdoor heated pool. Additionally, the property offers 4,000 square feet of meeting space. Formerly a Holiday Inn, the hotel is owned and managed by Linchris Hotel Corp.
DENVER — Pearlmark has received a $55.1 million loan to refinance the 202-room Ritz-Carlton in Denver. The full-service, AAA Five-Diamond hotel is located at 1881 Curtis St. The Ritz-Carlton originally opened in 2008. It underwent $9.3 million in capital improvements between 2013 and 2015. The property includes a Ritz-Carlton Club Level, Elway’s Restaurant, the Ritz-Carlton Spa, a recently renovated fitness center with adjacent salon, and an adjacent TruFit Athletic club with lap pool, Olympic weights and an indoor climbing wall. The hotel also offers 12,383 square feet of meeting and event space. HFF’s Eric Tupler and John Bourret arranged the floating-rate loan with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
FARGO, N.D. — A locally based private real estate investor has acquired a two-property hospitality portfolio in Fargo for $30 million. The portfolio includes the Holiday Inn and a Holiday Inn Express that contain a total of 387 units. The hotels are situated at the intersection of Interstate 29 and 13th Avenue South, directly across from West Acres Mall, the state’s largest regional mall. The Holiday Inn has undergone more than $10 million in renovations since 2000, including a complete guest room remodel in 2006. Both hotels come with 15-year licenses that expire in 2030. Shane Skubis of Marcus & Millichap represented both the buyer and seller, a Los Angeles-based private equity group, in this transaction. Craig Patterson is Marcus & Millichap’s broker of record in North Dakota.
SAVANNAH, GA. — Noble Investment Group has opened the 252-room Hotel Indigo Savannah Historic District at 201 W. Bay St. in Savannah’s City Market at Ellis Square neighborhood. InterContinental Hotels Group manages the hotel, which is located at the site of the former Guckenheimer tobacco warehouse and grocery. The hotel features The Five Oaks Taproom restaurant, which serves breakfast and dinner with dishes made from ingredients sourced within 90 miles of Savannah. Local artist Meryl Turret designed the guest room murals, which showcase historic bottles that were unearthed in this district of Savannah, and each room also features watercolor pieces that highlight the original market building. Hotel amenities include a 24-hour fitness center and 6,000 square feet of flexible event space.
SAN FRANCISCO — Dougherty Funding LLC has provided $22.8 million in financing for a 169-room Comfort Inn & Suites Hotel in San Francisco. The hotel is situated in south San Francisco, about three miles north of San Francisco International Airport. It was built in 1986 and was renovated last in 2010. About $2.4 million of the loan proceeds will be used to renovate the hotel. Dougherty Funding served as lead lender and servicer for the loan.
LOS ANGELES — The developers of The Bloc, a 1.1 million-square-foot office, retail and hospitality redevelopment in downtown Los Angeles, have received a $225 million permanent loan to finance the project. The Bloc is located at 700 S. Flower Street. The site was originally built in 1973 as a traditional mall. The redevelopment will transform the space into an open-air urban complex. It will be the largest mixed-use property in Los Angeles, according to developers The Ratkovich Company, National Real Estate Advisors and Blue Vista Capital. The Bloc is scheduled to open this summer. A renovated flagship Macy’s will anchor the center. The Bloc will also offer a variety of artisanal retailers and restaurants, as well as creative-leaning office space and a newly renovated, 496-room Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown. The new loan replaces an existing CMBS loan inherited when the property was purchased in 2013, with a final payoff amount of about $121.6 million. It also provides additional proceeds to finalize the redevelopment and fund leasing costs at the property. “This financial commitment lends further credence to the vibrant revitalization underway in downtown and lays the foundation for continued growth in the decades ahead,” says Jeff Kanne, president of National …
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Giri Hotels has acquired Hampton Inn Portsmouth Central located at 99 Durgin Lane in Portsmouth. Mercury Investment Co. sold the 125-room property for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition was financed by Kennebuck Savings, a full-service mutual savings bank. The hotel features complimentary guest breakfast, shuttle service, an indoor pool and whirlpool, sports courts, fitness room, business center and hospitality room. Denny Meikleham and Alan Suzuki of HFF represented the seller in the transaction.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers, acting on behalf of an institutional client, and Spectrum Properties plan to build a 17-story, 217-room lifestyle hotel at the corner of Third and Church streets in Uptown Charlotte. Kimpton Hotels, which was purchased by Intercontinental Hotels Group in 2015, will manage the hotel. Cornerstone and Spectrum expect to deliver the hotel by October 2017. The asset will feature a fitness center and 9,200 square feet of flexible meeting space, including a 4,000-square-foot ballroom and five conference rooms. The hotel will also include a signature 180-seat restaurant and a partially open-air, 7,500-square-foot, 160-seat rooftop lounge that overlooks Romare Bearden Park. The hotel will complement the previously announced 300 South Tryon, a 25-story, 600,000-square-foot office building at Third and Tryon streets.
WATERLOO, IOWA — HREC Investment Advisors has brokered the sale of a 79-room Holiday Inn Express in Waterloo, approximately 60 miles northwest of Cedar Rapids, for an undisclosed price. The hotel, located at 2127 La Porte Road, features a business center, fitness center, complimentary breakfast and indoor pool. The buyer and the seller were undisclosed. Ted Anka of HREC represented the seller in the transaction.
REVERE, MASS. — Logan Hospitality Associates LLC, a division of KW Development, has completed the sale of Four Points by Sheraton Boston Logan Airport, located at 427 Squire Road in Revere, for an undisclosed sum. Fingerprint Hospitality LLC was an advisor to and an investor in the undisclosed buyer. Situated on 3.3 acres, the property features 180 guest rooms, 3,755 square feet of meeting space, an indoor pool and fitness room. Driftwood Hospitality will manage the property. Denny Meikleham and Alan Suzuki of HFF represented the seller in the transaction. Lauren O’Neil, also of HFF, secured a three-year, floating-rate acquisition loan through TIAA Direct, a division of TIAA-CREF Trust Co., for the buyer.
