Hospitality

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GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS — The City of Grand Prairie, located roughly midway between Dallas and Fort Worth, has completed construction of two connecting Hilton-branded hotels totaling 276 rooms, as well as a new convention center. The 147-room Homewood Suites and 129-room Hilton Garden Inn are located within the 172-acre EpicCentral entertainment district and share a dual arrival lobby, reception area, lounge, bar and elevator lobby. Merriman Anderson Architects designed the properties, and Arch-Con Corp. served as the general contractor. Concord Hospitality will operate the hotels.

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CHICAGO — CBRE has arranged the sale of the Hotel Versey, a 137-room property located at 644 W. Diversey Parkway in Chicago. The sales price was undisclosed. Constructed and opened in 1925, the hotel is situated near the Lincoln Park Zoo, Lake Michigan beaches and Wrigley Field. The four-story property was recently renovated. Nate Sahn, James Foxx, Nicholas Endre, Marcello Campanini and Adam Foret of CBRE represented the seller, Lincoln Park Hotel PropCo LLC. The buyer was an entity doing business as REIT 644 LLC.

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ATLANTA — JLL Capital Markets has arranged the refinancing for Hyatt Centric Buckhead Atlanta, a hotel located at 3301 Lenox Square Parkway NE in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. Opened in 2021, the property features 218 rooms, as well as food-and-beverage options including a ground-floor restaurant and rooftop bar. Amenities at the hotel include a fitness center, pool and more than 5,000 square feet of meeting and event space. Ed Coco and Matt Casey of JLL secured the financing on behalf of the borrower, a joint venture between Songy Highroads LLC and an affiliate of Hyatt Hotels Corp.

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NEW YORK CITY — An affiliate of New Jersey-based financial intermediary Cronheim Mortgage has arranged a $41 million loan for the refinancing of the 175-room Aloft New York Brooklyn Hotel. The property is located in the borough’s downtown area and offers a fitness center and an onsite restaurant and bar. Beau Williams of Cronheim originated the financing on behalf of the borrower, locally based investment firm The Lam Group. The direct lender was not disclosed.

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KANSAS CITY, MO. — Bentley Legacy Holdings (BLH) and Pendant Capital have acquired The Raphael Hotel, Autograph Collection, in Kansas City for an undisclosed price. Bentley Legacy Group, the management arm of BLH, has immediately assumed management of the hotel. Located just off Country Club Plaza, The Raphael Hotel has been a Kansas City fixture since 1928. The property originally served as an apartment building before being transformed into a hotel in 1975. The new owners plan to renovate the guest rooms and make enhancements to the lobby and other public spaces. Chaz on the Plaza, the onsite restaurant, will continue operating. The property is designated as a Historic Hotel of America through the National Trust for Preservation and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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DUNWOODY, GA. — The Dunwoody City Council has approved the rezoning of Phase IV of Park Center, a 17-acre, transit-oriented office campus in metro Atlanta. The master developer of the project is KDC, a Dallas-based corporate development and investment firm. The amended zoning will allow KDC to change its plans from a standalone fourth office tower to a two-tower project that will comprise 175 hotel rooms, 300 residential units, 22,000 square feet of retail space and 300,000 square feet of office space. The plan includes two towers on a common podium with a 20-story apartment tower and a combined office and hotel tower, where six floors of hotel rooms will sit atop 12 levels of office space. Phase IV represents the final phase of Park Center and will occupy the last undeveloped portion of the development, which was originally conceived as a 2.2 million-square-foot East Coast hub for State Farm Insurance. The project team includes local architecture firm Cooper Carry. The current campus contains three office towers developed over the past 10 years: the 600,000-square-foot Park Center One, which is directly connected to the Dunwoody MARTA Station; the 621,000-square-foot Park Center Two with more than 39,000 square feet of retail …

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TOMAH, WIS. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of the Clarion Pointe Tomah hotel, a 67-room property in the central Wisconsin town of Tomah. The two-story hotel is located at 2005 N. Superior Ave. Amenities include a hot tub, fitness center, laundry facility, gift shop, playground and gaming lounge. Ebrahim Valliani and Michael Gantman of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer and seller, both of which were private investors. Marcus & Millichap’s Chris Gomes and Allan Miller were also listed on the deal as supporting brokers, and Todd Lindblom assisted in closing the transaction.

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. — JLL has arranged a $735 million CMBS loan for the refinancing of the 2,619-room Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort. The property comprises three Marriott-branded hotels: the 756-key Swan (Sheraton), the 1,514-key Dolphin (Westin) and the 349-key Swan Reserve (Autograph Collection). A consortium between Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs provided the loan to the borrower, a joint venture between Tishman Hotel & Realty and MetLife Investment Management. The Swan & Dolphin Resort is situated adjacent to Walt Disney World’s Epcot and Hollywood Studios theme parks in Lake Buena Vista. The partnership between Tishman and MetLife completed the property in 1990. The property’s amenity package includes 16 restaurants, seven bars, three fitness centers, six outdoor pools and a 12,000-square-foot spa. In addition, the property offers 452,000 square feet of meeting and event space, including eight ballrooms, 99 meeting rooms and 100,000 square feet of outdoor space. Kevin Davis, Mark Fisher and Caleigh O’Connell led the debt placement efforts for JLL. “The Swan & Dolphin Resort CMBS loan [is] priced at the tightest pricing levels seen for hotels since 2021,” says Davis. “The market pricing was an affirmation of the strong in-place cash flows, …

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LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. — Locally based brokerage firm Muroff Hospitality Group has negotiated the sale of the Lamplight Inn Bed & Breakfast in Lake Luzerne, about 60 miles north of Albany. The property was built in 1890 and consists of 12 suites, a dining room and an owner’s apartment. Mitch Muroff of Muroff Hospitality Group represented the seller and procured the buyer, both of which were private investors, in the transaction. The sales price was approximately $1.2 million.

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DURHAM, N.C. — Driftwood Capital has purchased Marriott Raleigh Durham Research Triangle Park, a 225-room hotel located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle area. Built in 1988 at 4700 Guardian Drive in Durham, the hotel marks Driftwood’s third acquisition in the state. Franklin BSP Realty Trust originated a two-year loan with three one-year extension options for the acquisition on behalf of Driftwood Capital. The buyer plans to implement $9 million of renovations at the property, with planned improvements including upgrades to the guest rooms, a new central air system and the introduction of amenities such as a lounge and expanded fitness center.

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