LOS ANGELES — Plaza La Reina, an extended-stay, hotel/retail project in the Los Angeles submarket of Westwood, will soon be completed. It will be located at 10488-52 Lindbrook Drive. Plaza La Reina, LP has tapped Bernards to finish the partially built project. It will be designed by Moule & Polyzoides.
CLEVELAND, OHIO — Cuyahoga County has selected Hilton Worldwide to operate a 600-650 room convention center hotel that is currently under development in downtown Cleveland. The hotel will feature subterranean links to the Global Center for Health Innovation and the new convention center, which is also under development. The hotel will also feature approximately 55,000 square feet of meeting space, a full-service restaurant, lobby bar, an indoor pool and fitness center. The new convention center hotel is scheduled to open by 2016. Cuyahoga County is the owner of the hotel, which financed the project through a combination of tax-exempt bonds and other tax-revenue sources. VOA Associates and Atlanta-based Cooper Carry are the joint architectural firms involved in the project and New York City-based Andersen-Miller is managing the interior design.
NEW YORK CITY — HFF has closed the $35 million sale of a 9,875-square-foot development site in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood. HFF worked on behalf of the seller, a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. New York-based real estate developer David Marx purchased the land parcel, located at 448-452 11th Ave. and 556 W. 37th St. Andrew Scandalios and Jose Cruz, senior managing directors, and Jeffrey Julien and Kevin O’Hearn, managing directors, led the HFF team representing the seller.
PORTLAND, ORE. — RLJ Lodging Trust has purchased the 106-room SpringHill Suites Portland Hillsboro for $24 million. The hotel is located at 7351 NE Butler Street near Intel’s Ronler Acres campus. It underwent a major renovation in 2011.Al Calhoun, Mark Fraioli and Melvin Chu of Jones Lang LaSalle represented the seller, an entity consisting of affiliates CPA:17 – Global; a publicly held, non-traded REIT affiliate of W. P. Carey Inc.; Watermark Capital Partners, LLC; and Montclair Hotel Investors, Inc
DALLAS — Homewood Suites by Hilton, Hilton Worldwide’s brand of upscale extended-stay hotels, has opened its newest location in downtown Dallas. Lowen 1025 Elm LP owns the building, which was originally the United Fidelity Life Insurance building and underwent extensive renovation as part of Homewood Suites’ adaptive re-use program. Lowen Hospitality Management LLC will manage the new property, which totals 130 suites over 10 stories. Located at 1025 Elm St., in close proximity to the West End and the Dallas Convention Center, the hotel includes amenities such as an indoor pool, 24-hour on-site pantry, golf simulator and fitness center.
PORTLAND, ORE. — RLJ Lodging Trust has purchased the 106-room SpringHill Suites Portland Hillsboro for $24 million. The hotel is located at 7351 NE Butler Street near Intel’s Ronler Acres campus. It underwent a major renovation in 2011. Al Calhoun, Mark Fraioli and Melvin Chu of Jones Lang LaSalle represented the seller, an entity consisting of affiliates CPA:17 – Global; a publicly held, non-traded REIT affiliate of W. P. Carey Inc.; Watermark Capital Partners, LLC; and Montclair Hotel Investors, Inc
MINNEAPOLIS — Hyatt Hotels Corp. has opened Hyatt Place Minneapolis Downtown, which has just completed a rebranding and renovation. Connected to Minneapolis’ climate-controlled skyway, the 213-room hotel is located minutes away from the historic Hennepin Theater District and shopping, restaurants and nightlife. The hotel includes 1,800 square feet of high-tech meeting and function space and a coffee-to-cocktails bar. Each guestroom features a 42-inch HDTV and a sectional sofa sleeper.
ROSELLE, ILL. — HREC Investment Advisors has arranged the sale of the 101-guestroom Country Inn & Suites in Roselle, located about 30 miles west of Chicago. Scott Stephens, COO and senior principal, and Scott Kaniewski, senior vice president at HREC Investment Advisors, represented the seller, a private equity firm, in the transaction. The Country Inn & Suites is located two miles from the Schaumburg Regional Airport and roughly 13 miles from O’Hare International Airport. The hotel also includes 22,000 square feet of meeting space.
NEW YORK CITY — Madison Realty Capital (MRC) has closed a $40.2 million loan to fund the payoff of a discounted existing $50 million acquisition loan on the Hudson Yards development in Manhattan. Additional proceeds of the loan will be used to fund predevelopment costs for a 265,000-square-foot hotel project on the site, which is located on the corner of 37th Street and 11th Avenue. When constructed, the 420-room hotel will feature several food and beverage outlets, as well as meeting space. The project is one of the many new developments at Hudson Yards. After the 2005 rezoning, the area now has capacity for approximately 26 million square feet of new office development, 20,000 units of housing (of which almost 5,000 units will be affordable), 2 million square feet of retail space and 3 million square feet of hotel space.
FORT WALTON BEACH, FLA. — Woodbine Development Corp. and InterMountain Management have commenced construction on a four-story, 112-room Marriott TownePlace Suites in Fort Walton Beach. An adjacent, waterfront parcel is also included in the transaction, which will soon house a yet-to-be-named restaurant up to 6,000 square feet. InterMountain will provide management services for the new hotel and Woodbine will provide asset management services for the property. The hotel is set to break ground in the summer of 2014. The project team also includes Jackson, Miss-based Harrell Contracting Group, Monroe, La.-based Architecture+ and Fort Walton Beach-based Choctaw Engineering Inc. Kevin Bethea of Realty House Commercial Properties is marketing the restaurant pad site.