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NEW ORLEANS AND NASHVILLE, TENN. — Irving, Texas-based FelCor Lodging Trust Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment trust, has sold the 370-room Embassy Suites – New Orleans-Convention Center and the 296-room Embassy Suites – Nashville-Airport for an aggregate price of $70 million to an unlisted buyer. FelCor is using the net proceeds to pay the remaining $37.7 million of accrued preferred dividends and to repay debt. The company is selling 39 non-strategic hotels as part of its long-term portfolio repositioning strategy. With the sale of these two Embassy Suites, FelCor has sold 18 of the 25 hotels it has brought to market since December 2010.