Knighthead Funding Provides $48M Loan for Acquisition, Conversion of Stamford Hotel

STAMFORD, CONN. — Knighthead Funding has provided a $48 million loan for the acquisition and partial conversion of the 508-room Marriott Stamford hotel in southern coastal Connecticut. The sponsor, Clearview Hotel Capital, will use a portion of the proceeds to convert one of the hotel’s two towers, which were built in 1975 and 1985, into a residential complex with studio, one- and two-bedroom units. The other tower will be renovated and relaunched as a modernized hotel. Tyler Dumon, Christopher Kramer, Daniel Fromm, Ricky Braha, Jordan Roeschlaub and Nick Scribani of Newmark arranged the debt.