TUCSON, ARIZ. — A private investor from Texas has purchased the 267-room Hotel Tucson City Center Inn Suites in Tucson for $9.6 million. The hotel is located at 475 North Granada Ave. in the city’s historic downtown Presidio Arts District. Lisa Estrada of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer. James I. Meng and Jon R. Grantham of the same firm represented the seller, a publicly traded REIT.
EAU CLAIRE, WIS. — Dougherty Funding LLC has closed a $15.3 million construction loan for Hotel Lismore, a DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton. Dougherty provided the financing to ECHL LLC. The construction involves redeveloping an existing hotel property located in downtown Eau Claire. The new full-service hotel will feature 112 rooms and a 14,406-square-foot convention center. The property will also include a fine dining restaurant, coffee shop, bar/lounge, fitness center and a business center. The convention center renovation is complete and the space is available for use. The entire project is slated for completion by April 2016. Dougherty Funding was the lead lender in the transaction and will also service the loan.
ATLANTA — Winter Construction has finished vertical construction on the AC Marriott Hotel at Phipps Plaza. The new six-story, 166-room hotel is located on the Phipps Plaza campus in Atlanta’s Buckhead district. Noble Investment is developing the property, which is the first AC Marriott in Georgia. The hotel will feature the AC Lounge, 2,500 square feet of meeting space, the AC Library, a fitness center, an indoor pool and a two-level parking deck that will connect to Phipps Plaza via a pedestrian walkway.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Berkadia has originated $17.5 million in acquisition financing for the Holiday Inn Austin Midtown. Stuart Wernick and Eli Gershenson of Berkadia’s Dallas office secured the five-year, fixed-rate financing with a senior and mezzanine structure on behalf of the borrower, a partnership between Alliance Development and Compass Lodging Advisors. Berkadia selected two lenders to help secure the necessary loan proceeds required by the borrower. Located at 6000 Middle Fiskville Road, Holiday Inn Austin Midtown rises nine stories and includes 189 rooms, as well as 15,000 square feet of meeting and conference room space. Hotel amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center and cocktail bar.
AUSTIN, TEXAS — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured a $16.6 million, non-recourse CMBS first mortgage for Residence Inn in Austin. The 112-room hotel is an extended-stay property. Ashley Harkness and Chuck Butterworth of Key’s commercial mortgage group secured the financing.
MIAMI — WoodSpring Hotels and Gold Coast Premier Properties LLC have broken ground on a new WoodSpring Suites hotel near Zoo Miami. Located at Coral Reef Drive and parallel to the Florida Turnpike, the hotel is slated for a third-quarter 2016 opening. The 124-room property will feature laundry facilities, modified kitchens and high-speed Internet. Gold Coast is also developing a WoodSpring Suites Signature hotel in Miami’s Doral submarket.
SAN FRANCISCO — Bank of China USA has provided an $87 million loan to the 155-room Loews Regency San Francisco. The planned use of the financing was not disclosed. The hotel was formerly known as the Mandarin Oriental San Francisco, and converted to the Loews Regency brand after Loews Hotels purchased the asset in April. Loews Regency San Francisco is located on floors 11 through 48 of 345 California Center at 222 Sansome St. in the Financial District. It is within walking distance of Union Square and Fisherman’s Wharf. The hotel features Brasserie S&P, more than 5,000 square feet of meeting space and a new 8,000-square-foot spa and fitness center. JLL’s Mike Huth, John Manning, Kevin Davis and Alex Witt arranged the transaction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lima Hotels, a new company established by developer Habte Sequar, plans to develop a 14-story hotel and apartment building in downtown Washington, D.C. The high-rise property will be located at 317 K St. N.W. at the corner of 4th and K streets in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood in Washington’s East End district. A small commercial building and auto body shop on the site will be demolished. The project will feature 200 hotel rooms on the first 11 floors and 30 apartment units on floors 12 through 14. Lima Hotels has selected PGN Architects and Gordon & Greenberg to co-design the project.
PITTSBURGH — Ethika Investments LLC, an affiliate of Laurus Corp., has allocated capital for the acquisition of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel – Green Tree in Pittsburgh. The 460-room property is the largest Pittsburgh hotel in the Hilton family of brands and recently underwent a $20 million renovation. Ethika and Laurus plan a $7 million capital plan, including the introduction of the Asado Grill restaurant, to improve customer experience and position the hotel as the go-to location for business meetings, conferences and weddings in the greater Pittsburgh area. The DoubleTree Green Tree features nearly 40,000 square feet of flexible, multi-functional meeting space and a 13,000-square-foot indoor athletic training center. This marks the 16th total capital allocation within Ethika’s Diversified Opportunity Real Estate Fund.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA. — Quadrum Global and InSite Group have opened Nautilus, a SIXTY Hotel in Miami Beach’s South Beach neighborhood. The partners purchased the property in 2011 and restored it into an upscale, 250-room property, which SIXTY Collective will operate. Originally built in the 1950s, Quadrum and InSite preserved and reconstructed the property’s porte cochere, 25-foot lobby ceilings, beveled windows, teal green tile, the famous Staircase to Nowhere and the Driftwood Room supper club. The rooms feature 48-inch TVs, vintage mini-bar chests, custom artwork and balconies with ocean views in select units. The property also features a penthouse suite on the eighth floor. The property’s amenities include a 1,890-square-foot heated saltwater pool with an underwater sound system, cabanas, pool bar, 24-hour fitness center and the Nautilus Cabana Club.
