Native American casino hotels are doing well in California

by advertising April 4, 202570 Gambling is an incredibly popular pastime in California, with many punters either using online casinos or visiting their brick-and-mortar counterparts to feel the thrill of the game. As such, the state is a prime location for casino hotels, with many of these institutions regularly welcoming gamblers from across the globe. Although…

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Bay Area hotel market languishes far below pre-COVID levels

Downtown San Jose shows recent strength in hopeful indicator By George Avalos | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group UPDATED: March 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM PDT SAN JOSE — As Bay Area hotels remain well below the lofty levels of success they had achieved before the onset of lockdowns to combat the spread of COVID-19, some lodging hubs in…

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Bay Area hotel converts into housing for 700 people

SFGATE contributor Randy Diamond recaps the latest in San Francisco hotel news for the column Get a Room The Ferry Building in San Francisco during sunset. This week in Get a Room, SFGATE’s roundup of news on hotels, we start by examining 2024 hotel openings across California.Joe Daniel Price/Getty Images By Randy Diamond, Freelance Writer |…

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Buyer Selected for $725MM Mortgage on Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Parc 55 Hotels

March 10, 2025 By Kate Snyder San Francisco’s hospitality landscape is bracing for a significant shift as two of its largest hotels. The 1,921-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the 1,024-room Parc 55 San Francisco are slated to soon have a new owner with the recent selection of a buyer for more than half a…

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$725M Parc 55, Hilton Union Square debt finds buyer

Emily Landes | Thu, March 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM PST 6 min read An unknown buyer has snapped up the $725 million in debt on two of San Francisco’s largest hotels, according to servicer commentary. Virginia-based Park Hotels walked away from the 1,921-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square and 1,024-room Parc 55 San Francisco in 2023 and…

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LA County hotel development balks at inflation, interest rates

Despite statewide hospitality doldrums, LA has 23 hotels with 2,833 rooms under construction: Atlas Mar 5, 2025, 7:00 PM By TRD Staff While hotel development across the state has stalled, Los Angeles leads in new hotel openings and lodging under construction ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2028 Olympics. Los Angeles County had…

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Bay Area hotel defaults on loan after $40M basketball facility renovation

Oakland Marriott City Center, the city’s largest downtown hotel, is defaulting on its loan. By Olivia Harden, Travel Reporter Feb 22, 2025 In another blow to Oakland’s tourism industry, the largest hotel in the city’s downtown is defaulting on its loan. The owners of the Oakland Marriott City Center, a 500-room hotel on Broadway, defaulted on its $100 million loan from…

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Experts hope for a quick recovery for LA’s tourism economy

Michelle Lhooq | BloombergPublished 11:03 a.m. ET Feb. 17, 2025 On a rainy afternoon in early February, Hodari Sababu, the cowboy-hat-donning owner of LA Hood Life Tours, isn’t running his usual assortment of van excursions to hip-hop and Hollywood landmarks. “People are scared to come to LA right now,” he says, seated at a booth…

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Gaw Capital Defaults on $100M Loan Tied to California Hotel

2025/02/16 by Christopher Caillavet Gaw acquired the Oakland Marriott City Center in 2017 (Image: Gaw Capital Partners) A vehicle managed by Hong Kong’s Gaw Capital Partners has defaulted on a $100 million loan linked to a 500-room California hotel, according to a local media account citing official records. Fund manager Gaw purchased the Oakland Marriott City Center in the…

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Big Oakland hotel flops into loan default as local lodging woes widen

Hotel highrise is an Oakland landmark By George Avalos | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group UPDATED: February 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM PST OAKLAND — A big highrise hotel in downtown Oakland has tumbled into default on a delinquent loan, fresh evidence of a feeble lodging market in the Bay Area. The Oakland Marriott City Center hotel next to…

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Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country sold to Brookfield Properties

By Alex Barreira – Staff Reporter, San Francisco Business Times Feb 11, 2025 Global developer and investor Brookfield Properties has acquired the 253-room Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country hotel in Santa Rosa for $55 million. The seller, the United Overseas Bank Ltd., New York Agency, completed the deal Nov. 22 according to property records. It was the North Bay’s…

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California hotel sales decline in 2024, but not as much as a year earlier

The most expensive hotel transaction last year in the North Bay was the Hyatt Regency Santa Rosa, which sold for $55 million, according to Atlas Hospitality Group. CHERYL SARFATY | THE NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL | February 10, 2025, 11:59AM Hotel sales across California last year proved anything but robust, the result of persistent economic…

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