Hospitality

WILDWOOD, FLA. — Southern Hospitality has broken ground on the first new construction of the Extended Stay America Select Suites prototype hotel. The four-story, 124-room hotel will be located in Wildwood, a city in Central Florida near The Villages master-planned community. The 50,000-square-foot property will be situated on less than two acres and feature apartment-like suites with full kitchens and onsite laundry services. Southern Hospitality and operator Extended Stay America plan to open the hotel in early 2025.

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HANOVER, MD. — JLL Capital Markets has brokered the sale of a 289-room dual-branded Aloft/Element Arundel Mills BWI Airport hotel in Hanover, a southern suburb of Baltimore. The Aloft comprises 142 rooms, and Element has 147 guest rooms. Amenities at the property include an indoor pool, fitness center, 24-hour market, guest laundry and a meeting space. Located off State Route 100, the property is situated about five miles from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Spark GHC acquired the hotel for an undisclosed price. Ketan Patel, KC Patel and Phil White of JLL arranged the sale on behalf of the undisclosed seller.

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ROCKVILLE, MD. — Choice Hotels International, a Maryland-based operator, will open five hotels under its EverHome Suites brand in Texas throughout the course of 2025. Denver-based HighSide Cos. is developing all of the hotels, which will be located in Amarillo, Bastrop, Brownsville, El Paso and Waco. Choice Hotels will retain full ownership of the Bastrop property. Construction is underway on all five hotels, each of which will have between 114 and 122 apartment-style rooms that will feature fully equipped kitchens, spa-style bathrooms and both open and closed storage spaces.

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NEW YORK CITY — MCR, a New York City-based hotel owner and operator, has received a $333 million loan to refinance a 16-property hotel portfolio totaling 2,274 guest rooms.  The portfolio spans 11 states and features 11 Hilton and Marriott extended-stay and select-service brands, including Home2 Suites by Hilton, Hilton Garden Inn, DoubleTree by Hilton, Hampton by Hilton, Residence Inn by Marriott and Courtyard by Marriott. MCR acquired the properties primarily in 2020 and 2021. Although a full property list was not disclosed, a partial list includes Hilton Garden Inn Louisville Mall of St. Matthews in Louisville, Kentucky; Hampton Inn & Suites Charlotte Steele Creek in Charlotte, North Carolina; Courtyard by Marriott Oxford in Oxford, Mississippi; Hilton Garden Inn Missoula in Missoula, Montana; and Hilton Phoenix Chandler in Chandler, Arizona. The loan was securitized in a floating-rate, single-asset, single-borrower CMBS transaction. The financing replaces the original debt, with an outstanding balance of $268 million at the time of payoff. The portfolio’s net operating income has increased from $15 million at the time of acquisition to $36 million, according to MCR. The company says that the refinancing generated $51 million of net proceeds as a result. Deutsche Bank Securities and BMO …

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SAN MARCOS, TEXAS — Partners Capital, the investment platform of Partners Real Estate, has purchased a 107-room Hilton Garden Inn hotel in San Marcos, located roughly midway between Austin and San Antonio. The hotel offers traditional guestrooms and suites and amenities such as a fitness center, business center, pool, meeting and event space and an onsite restaurant and bar. The seller and sales price were not disclosed.

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NEW YORK CITY — New Jersey-based financial intermediary Cronheim Mortgage has arranged a loan of an undisclosed amount for the refinancing of the Sheraton Brooklyn New York Hotel. The 321-room hotel is located at 228 Duffield St. in the downtown area and offers a fitness center, lounge and an onsite restaurant and bar. Beau Williams of Cronheim Mortgage arranged the fixed-rate, nonrecourse loan through Deutsche Bank on behalf of the borrower, locally based investment firm Lam Group.

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DENVER — The LCP Group has facilitated $85 million in refinancing for a hotel complex in Denver that combines the Brown Palace Hotel and Spa Autograph Collection and Holiday Inn Express Denver Downtown. The refinancing package for Crescent Real Estate includes a senior loan from Benefit Street Partners and a mezzanine loan from a partnership between LCP and Ares Management. Situated in downtown Denver, the 474-key complex offers immediate access to the central business district, River North Arts and Lower Downtown districts. The Brown Palace has a storied history of more than 130 years.

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TEXAS CITY, TEXAS — A joint venture between Sports Hospitality Ventures and Lagoon Development Co. will develop the Sports Illustrated Resort at Lago Mar, a 200-room hotel that will be located southeast of Houston in Texas City. The nine-story hotel will feature a variety of suite accommodations and sports-themed amenities, as well as a 12-acre lagoon and a beach club with cabanas, resort services and a swim-up island bar. Construction is scheduled to begin in the third quarter.

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BLACKSBURG, VA. — Greysteel has arranged an $18.3 million loan for the refinancing of Residence Inn Blacksburg-University in Blacksburg. The borrower, Newport Hospitality Group, built the hotel in 2017. Situated adjacent to Virginia Tech University, the hotel comprises 126 rooms. Stephen Haase of Greysteel secured the five-year, fixed-rate financing through a regional bank on behalf of the sponsor.

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LANGHORNE, PA. — Atlanta-based brokerage firm Hunter Hotel Advisors has negotiated the sale of the Residence Inn Philadelphia Langhorne, a 100-room hotel located on the northeastern outskirts of Philadelphia. The hotel offers an indoor pool, fitness center and meeting and event space. Spencer Davidson and David Perrin of Hunter Hotel Advisors represented the seller, MCR Hotels, in the transaction. The buyer was Maryland-based Baywood Hotels.

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