CLEVELAND, OHIO — HREC Investment Advisors has arranged the sale of the 242-room Sheraton Cleveland Airport Hotel at 5300 Riverside Drive for an undisclosed price. Ted Anka, vice president in HREC Investment Advisors’ Chicago and Miami offices, advised the buyer, Lakshmi Narayan Hospitality Group LLC. Anka also advised the seller, Hopkins Partners. The property contains over 16,000 square feet of meeting and banquet space.
TUSCALOOSA, ALA. — InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and Chance Partners have broken ground on Hotel Indigo Tuscaloosa Downtown, a 91-room hotel located at 120 Greensboro Ave. within Riverfront Village, a $60 million mixed-use development. Riverfront Village fronts Black Warrior River in downtown Tuscaloosa. The new hotel will be the first LEED-certified hotel in Alabama and Tuscaloosa’s first riverfront hotel. IHG and Chance Partners expect to open the hotel in winter 2016. Upon completion, the hotel will feature 1,000 square feet of executive meeting space, a fitness center, restaurant, rooftop bar, business center and a 2,500-square-foot outdoor terrace. Interstate Hotels & Resorts will manage the hotel upon completion.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — HFF has arranged two loans totaling $36.2 million for the Holiday Inn Express & Suites and Fairfield Inn & Suites in Washington, D.C. The two adjacent hotels each have 126 guest rooms and feature a breakfast area, lobby, fitness center, swimming pool, business center and between 600 and 800 square feet of meeting space. The Holiday Inn Express & Suites (1917 Bladensburg Road) and the Fairfield Inn & Suites (2305 New York Ave. N.E.) share 251 parking spaces on approximately 3.6 acres at the intersection of Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue. Mark Remington of HFF arranged the $19.3 million loan for Holiday Inn Express & Suites and the $16.9 million loan for Fairfield inn & Suites through Burke & Herbert Bank on behalf of the borrower, Rocks Engineering Co. The fixed-rate loans each have a term of 10 years.
MANHATTAN, KAN. — Condor Hospitality Trust Inc. has completed the disposition of a Super 8 property located at 200 Tuttle Creek Blvd. in Manhattan. The 85-room hotel sold for $3.2 million to an undisclosed buyer. Condor will use the net proceeds of the sale for general corporate purposes, including future acquisitions.
EL PASO, TEXAS — Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) has secured $14.4 million in first mortgage financing for Hilton Garden Inn El Paso/University, a 153-room, full-service hotel in El Paso. Jason Bond and Michael Cosby worked on behalf of the borrower, TVO Groupe, to place the 10-year, fixed-rate loan with Cantor Commercial Real Estate. Loan proceeds will be used to refinance existing debt and fund future property improvement plans. The hotel is located at 111 West University Ave. adjacent to the University of Texas at El Paso.
PLANO, TEXAS — Developer Sam Moon Group has broken ground on a new 15-story, 304-guestroom Renaissance hotel in Plano. Part of the new 250-acre Legacy West master development, the hotel will include more than 100,000 square feet of conference and meeting space, restaurants, an outdoor bar terrace and a third-floor amenity deck with a swimming pool, bar, spa and fitness center. An attached parking garage will provide 470 parking spaces for guests. Brasfield & Gorrie will serve as general contractor and HKS Hospitality Group will serve as architect on the project. Other project team members include Looney & Associates, Blum Engineering, Brockett/Davis/Drake Inc., Bancorp South and Jones Lang LaSalle. Construction of the hotel is expected to be complete in spring 2017.
ATLANTA — The Urbana Varro group of companies has purchased the Artmore Hotel, an independent boutique hotel located at 1302 W. Peachtree St. in Midtown Atlanta. The buyer, which includes a national commercial real estate investment fund and a development and property management firm, purchased the asset from Jamestown for an undisclosed price. Originally built as a luxury apartment building in 1924, the Artmore Hotel is located within walking distance of Center Stage, Woodruff Arts Center, Savannah College of Art and Design and the Fox Theatre.
ATLANTA — Hunter Hotel Advisors has arranged the $42.1 million sale of the DoubleTree by Hilton Atlanta Downtown. The 312-room hotel is located at 160 Ted Turner Drive N.W., within walking distance of the Peachtree Center MARTA station, the Georgia World Congress Center, Philips Arena and the Georgia Aquarium. Hunter Hotel Advisors represented an unnamed global private equity firm in the sale. The buyer, Legacy Property Group, plans to invest $12 million to renovate the hotel and its restaurant while retaining the DoubleTree brand.
SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the sale of Homespring Suites, a 60-room hospitality property located in Sulphur Springs. The terms of the sale were not released. Chris Gomes and Skyler Cooper of Marcus & Millichap’s Dallas office, along with Allan Miller of the firm’s San Antonio office, marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. Cooper, Gomes and Miller also procured the buyer, a private investor. Homespring Suites is located at 1521 E. Industrial Drive. Built in 1999, the three-story, independent hotel is situated on 1.5 acres just off I-30. Amenities include an exercise room, outdoor pool, high-speed Internet access, meeting space and laundry facilities.
BELTSVILLE, MD. — Laurus Corp. has completed the repositioning of the 207-room, nine-story Sheraton College Park North Hotel. The hotel is located in Beltsville, a Maryland suburb roughly nine miles outside of downtown Washington, D.C. The $5 million renovation includes an overhaul of each hotel room with new furniture, upgraded bathrooms, new Wi-Fi connectivity, remodeled club lounge, updated fitness center, new signage, recent landscaping and a renovated outdoor swimming pool with a sundeck. The hotel is now pet-friendly and will accommodate dogs up to 40 pounds. In addition to the renovations, the hotel features a new restaurant and bar known as Asado Brasserie.