Hospitality

NASHVILLE, TENN. — Merrillville, Ind.-based White Lodging has closed on the purchase of the former Rock City Machine Co. site, located at 301 3rd Ave. S. in Nashville, to build the 255-room Hyatt Place Nashville. The hotel will be the only Hyatt in downtown Nashville. PFVS Architects designed the property, which will include amenities such as 3,580 square feet of meeting space, a 175-space parking garage, a 24-hour coffee and wine bar called The Gallery and the a.m. Kitchen Skillet where complimentary breakfast will be served. White Lodging is developing the hotel and will manage it upon completion. Construction is slated to begin in May, and the hotel is scheduled to open in December 2013.

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LONG BRANCH, N.J. — United Capital Corp. has purchased the 12-story Ocean Place Resort & Spa in Long Branch. The 254-room hotel includes 40,000 square feet of meeting and event space, a private beach, two restaurants and a fitness facility. United Capital plans to invest $15 million in renovations to the property. The New York-based company also owns and operates hotels in Windsor Locks, Conn.; Utica, N.Y.; Nashua, N.H.; as well as Atlanta and Miami. Additional terms of the deal were undisclosed.

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PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia-based Hersha Hospitality Trust has closed on the sale of 14 of 18 secondary-market hotels with an affiliate of Connecticut-based Starwood Capital Group for $40.5 million. The real estate investment trust announced the sale last August as part of a portfolio restructuring. Hersha owns upscale and mid-priced hotels in major markets including Boston and New York. Starwood, a privately held global investment firm, bought a 49.9 percent stake in Hersha last year to target the U.S. hospitality sector. Six of the 18 properties in the deal are located in Pennsylvania.

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ATLANTA — Noble Investment Group has purchased the 191-room Hotel Midtown — Atlanta, located at 125 10th St. NE in Atlanta, from CW Capital Asset Management for $16 million. The buyer plans to invest up to $21 million to renovate and upgrade the hotel, and convert it to the Hyatt brand. Teague Hunter, Bob Hunter and Lee Hunter of Hunter Realty's Atlanta office, along with Kyle Stevenson of the firm's Washington, D.C., office, represented the seller in the transaction.

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OMAHA, NEB. — An affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corp. has purchased land in Omaha for the construction of a Hyatt hotel. The hotel is expected to open in 2014. Construction is expected to begin later this year. The Hyatt Place Omaha Downtown/Old Market will include 159 rooms in a nine-story building on the northwest corner of Jackson and 12th streets. The Chicago office of DLR Group is designing the building, which will be the first Hyatt hotel in Nebraska.

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BOSTON — A former Radisson hotel and adjoining playhouse in Boston's theater district will be reborn this spring as the Revere Hotel. The 365-room hotel will include more than 35,000 square feet of meeting space and the Emerald Lounge, an entertainment venue. The hotel is owned by Northwood Hospitality and will feature interiors designed by an in-house design team and BBGM Interiors. The hotel is slated to open this April.

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HOUSTON — Greenwich, Conn.-based Wheelock Street Capital has acquired the 380-room DoubleTree Suites by Hilton, located on Westheimer Road in the Houston Galleria submarket. The hotel features 10,000 square feet of meeting space. Westmont Hospitality will manage the hotel on behalf of Wheelock. The Plasencia Group represented the seller, an institutional investor group, in the transaction.

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