Posts Tagged ‘Alan Reay’

Decline in 2023 Is Second Only to 2009 By Bryan WrotenHotel News Now February 6, 2024 | 6:04 AM California’s individual hotel sales dropped 45% year over year in 2023, surprising no one. What did come as a bit of a surprise for Alan Reay, president of Atlas Hospitality Group — which produced its annual year-end…

Affordable housing is in short supply in the Golden State. By Neil Pierson California is attractive for many reasons. The weather is warm but milder than many other states. The natural beauty is highlighted by nine national parks, more than any other state. And jobs in the Golden State tend to pay well as the…

by Tom York Orange County’s Atlas Hospitality Group. reports that during 2023 two hotels with a total of 267 rooms opened in San Diego County. The largest was the 145-room AC Hotel San Diego. The hospitality real estate broker reported there are currently six hotels with 2,191 rooms under construction in the county. The largest is the…

Compromise requires builders to replace homes demolished by development By TRD Staff | JAN 22, 2024, 11:36 AM Hotel developers in Los Angeles must now replace homes demolished for hospitality suites. The City Council passed a law early last month requiring new hotel projects to replace displaced housing units on a one-for-one basis, Hotel News…

No new hotels opened in SF in 2023 JAN 19, 2024, 12:30 PM | By Daria Solovieva Last year wasn’t a walk in the park for California developers and the latest numbers show it. A biannual survey by brokerage firm Atlas Hospitality Group published this week indicated the hotel supply issues are likely to persevere…

High Barriers To Entry Make Construction Harder To Justify Financially By Bryan Wroten | Hotel News Now | January 19, 2024 | 6:28 AM A new law in Los Angeles could have a dramatic effect on hotel development in the city — that is, if hotel developers didn’t already feel constrained by the overall environment there.…

Lousy market torpedoes hotel projects and openings statewide By GEORGE AVALOS | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: January 17, 2024 at 1:50 p.m. | UPDATED: January 18, 2024 at 6:17 a.m. SAN JOSE — Hotel construction and new openings have cratered in the Bay Area and throughout California, fresh evidence of a brutal commercial real estate market statewide, a new…

Downtown Hotels Open in Late 2023 BY BRYNN SHAFFER | JANUARY 8, 2024 As the 96-year-old Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles closes its doors at the end of the month, as announced in an Instagram post in December, another downtown hotel has opened. Sonder Holdings Inc., a modern tech-enabled hospitality service based in San Francisco,…

After $70M renovation of SF hotel, it’s a question of “throwing good money after bad” JAN 4, 2024, 5:02 PM | By Emily Landes Highgate Hotels has missed a balloon payment on about $250 million in debt attached to the Hyatt Regency Downtown SOMA, according to loan documents and special servicer commentary cited by Trepp. …

December 13, 2023 | Bianca Barragán The Ace Hotel DTLA will cease operations at the end of January.   “It’s been an honor to inhabit these hallowed halls and The Theatre for ten golden years, which feels as good a run as any,” an Instagram post on the Ace Hotel’s account says. “We hope to be back before…

By Patricia Kirk | Nov 27, 2023 8:00am Climate-related events are affecting where and when tourists visit U.S. destinations and will continue to play a role in vacation decisions as Climate Change worsens.  A 2021 study by the National Institutes of Health on the impact of Climate Change on tourist destination decisions, which was published in JAMA,…