Hospitality

Holiday Inn

JEKYLL ISLAND, GA. — New Castle Hotels & Resorts, a Ridgefield, Conn.-based resort hotel owner and operator, has acquired the Holiday Inn Resort Jekyll Island, a 158-room hotel in Jekyll Island. Georgia Coast Holdings LLC and NorthPointe Hospitality sold the property for $41 million. Rich Lillis of Colliers represented the buyer in the transaction. The Holiday Inn Resort Jekyll Island is a full-service hotel situated on more than seven acres of oceanfront property, including a quarter-mile of beachfront. The hotel features oversized rooms and suites, as well as a playground and lawn area, fire pits and cabanas, kid programming and activities, bike rentals, fitness center, pool and a hot hub. Located at 701 N Beachview Drive, the hotel is located near Driftwood Beach and the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. The hotel also is situated near numerous bike trails and 18 miles from Saint Simons Island.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of the 210-room Wyndham Garden Austin hotel, located just south of the city’s downtown area. Hotel amenities include a pool, fitness center, business center, 10,500 square feet of meeting space and a snack bar/deli. Allan Miller, Chris Gomes and Matt Omansky of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company, in the transaction. The buyer was a partnership between two undisclosed firms based in Texas and Arkansas that are conducting business as Dreamliner Global Inc. The new ownership has tapped G&G Hospitality to manage the hotel.

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WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP, OHIO — PMZ Realty Capital LLC has arranged an $18.4 million loan for the refinancing of two hotel properties in West Chester Township, about 18 miles north of Cincinnati. The adjacent properties include the 100-room Courtyard Cincinnati North at Union Center and the 100-suite Residence Inn Cincinnati North/West Chester. Both offer a fitness center, indoor pool, 24-hour food market and complimentary Wi-Fi. A life insurance company provided the loan, which features an interest rate below 4 percent and interest-only payments. The borrower was undisclosed.

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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — Sterling Real Estate Partners has purchased Suites on Scottsdale, a hotel property in Scottsdale, for an undisclosed price in an off-market transaction. The company plans to convert the 114-key extended-stay hotel, which was built in 1996, into an 85-unit apartment community. The conversion will consist of modifying the existing structure to conform to Scottsdale’s building codes, including new balconies for every unit, enhanced curb appeal and select rooms combined to improve unit mix. New resident amenities will include a large conference room with workspace-style offices; indoor/outdoor fitness center; yoga studio; movie theater; dog park with pet washing station; resort-style pool; automated package locker delivery system; and smart access system.

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LAS VEGAS — DG Design + Development, a Las Vegas-based hotel developer, has obtained a $44.8 million bridge loan to refinance the recently opened, dual-flagged Hampton Inn and Home2 Suites by Hilton – Las Vegas Convention Center. Dallas-based Hall Structured Finance provided the bridge loan for the borrower. The six-story, 250-room hotel offers both a select-service and extended-stay option, as well as a fitness center; business center; 1,000 square feet of meeting and event space; dining facilities; and an outdoor pool and spa. Jay Miller of BayBridge Real Estate Capital brokered the deal.

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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco-based Sansome Pacific has acquired a value-add portfolio of 10 retail and hospitality properties in California, Oregon, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine and New Hampshire for $20.6 million. The portfolio offers a total of 204,000 square feet. A majority of the properties feature below-market rents and short-term leases. The properties were acquired from a debt fund that buys loans encumbering underperforming mall properties. The two hotel assets, located in California, are 60-key properties. The retail assets include both single-tenant and multi-tenant buildings with lease terms ranging from one to six years along with freestanding pad buildings located near shopping malls. The larger mall assets are in various phase of renovation and will be upgraded in the coming years. Skyline Pacific Properties provided financing for the portfolio.

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MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, OHIO — Marcus & Millichap has negotiated the $8.7 million sale of the Crowne Plaza Cleveland Airport hotel in Middleburg Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. The five-story, 238-room hotel features an onsite restaurant named Tavolo 72. Amenities include a fitness center, indoor pool, airport shuttle and 16,000 square feet of meeting space. The property, located at 7230 Engle Road, was originally built in 1978. It was branded as Crowne Plaza in 2008. Robert Hunter and Scott Havericak of Marcus & Millichap represented the seller, a limited liability company. The duo also procured the undisclosed buyer.

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Inspire Development, an Austin-based developer of residential and commercial properties, has broken ground on the first phase of Pearson Ranch, a new mixed-use campus in northwest Austin. The $2 billion project will include 2.6 million square feet of new office space; 200,000 square feet of stores, restaurants and community and cultural spaces; two hotels; thousands of high-end residences; and 30 acres of park land. Phase I of Pearson Ranch will span 41 acres and feature approximately 600,000 square feet of office space, three high-end apartment communities and some lifestyle retail space. “We worked very closely with our team to create a plan that tightly knits the past, present and future into the most compelling land plan possible,” says Brett Ames, managing principal of Inspire Development, as well as president and CEO of Austin-based Ames Design Build. “Frankly, we feel a true sense of obligation to get it fully right.” The Pearson Ranch site is located on 156 acres at the corner of State Highway 45 and West Parmer Lane, which is approximately two miles north of Apple’s new $1 billion corporate campus. Other nearby employers include Dell, PayPal, Amazon and Visa. Pearson Ranch will include a 48-acre …

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AUSTIN, TEXAS — Sarasota, Fla.-based Floridays Development will build a 276-room hotel in East Austin. Designed by FK Architecture, the project will include a pool and an 89,123-square-foot parking garage. Other project partners include landscape architect Blacksmith Collaborative, civil engineer WPI Inc. and structural engineer SCA Consulting. A tentative construction completion date was not released, but demolition work on the site’s existing structures is underway. The hotel operator was also not disclosed.

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NEW YORK CITY — New York-based investment firm Navika Group of Cos. and Blue Sky Hospitality Solutions have acquired Andaz Wall Street, a 253-room hotel in Manhattan. Guestrooms range in size from 345 to 1,500 square feet, and amenities include 10,000 square feet of meeting and event space, as well as a new onsite restaurant and bar. The new ownership plans to invest about $5 million in capital improvements and to rebrand the property as the Hyatt Centric Wall Street New York.

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