San Manuel Band of Mission Indians buys stake in Dana Point resort

Tribe behind Yaamava’ Casino owns 40% of Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort JUN 7, 2023, 11:30 AM | By TRD Staff An Indian tribe in the Inland Empire has bought a major stake in the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach Resort & Club in Dana Point. The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, owners of the…

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Beverly Hills Voters To Decide Whether World’s Richest Person Can Build Hotel

If Approved, LVMH’s Proposed Cheval Blanc Hotel Would Attract Guests With Rodeo Drive Site, Analyst Says By Jack WitthausCoStar NewsMay 19, 2023 | 3:49 P.M. A proposed luxury hotel in affluent Beverly Hills, California, would attempt to lure guests to an area that’s considered underserved for hospitality — as long as residents vote to support the…

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Union Square Woes: San Francisco Hotel Owner Stops Debt Payments on Hilton, Parc 55

Written by Kevin TruongUpdated at Jun. 05, 2023 • 12:36pmPublished Jun. 05, 2023 • 12:07pm Park Hotels and Resorts, a Virginia-based real estate investment firm, said Monday that it had stopped paying back a $725 million loan on its main San Francisco properties and is likely to give two of the largest hotels in the city back to its lender.…

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SF’s biggest hotels to stop mortgage payments 

Park Hotels and Resorts will cease servicing $725M debt in “best interest” of investors JUN 5, 2023, 5:39 PMBy Pawan Naidu Park Hotels and Resorts announced it will cease making payments toward a $725 million non-recourse CMBS loan which is scheduled to mature in November 2023.  The loan was secured by two of its San Francisco…

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Bay Area hotel market struggles with post-COVID hangover

Recovery in San Jose badly trails other Western cities By GEORGE AVALOS | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: May 22, 2023 at 5:30 a.m. | UPDATED: May 22, 2023 at 3:50 p.m. The Bay Area’s hotel industry is still struggling to rebound from coronavirus-linked shutdowns, even as the lodging sector outside the region has flourished. And not everyone is in agreement…

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Bank, Hospitality Execs Discuss State of Lending

Opinions Vary on Impact of Banks Collapsing PACE Financing an Opportunity for Some LOS ANGELES — The state of the financial markets and lending have been hot-button topics in the hospitality industry after three regional U.S. banks collapsed over the past three months. Lenders and hospitality executives at the 2023 Meet the Money national hotel…

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Landmark East Bay Claremont hotel is bought for more than $160 million

OAKLAND — The Claremont Club & Spa, an iconic hotel perched in the hills on the Oakland and Berkeley border, has been bought by a Bay Area real estate developer in a deal that tops $160 million. The hotel, part of the Fairmont chain, was bought for about $163.3 million, according to documents filed on…

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Blackstone nears $950M refi on Hotel del Coronado in San Diego

Blackstone nears $950M refi on Hotel del Coronado in San Diego Barclays leading CMBS deal on 1880s hotel Blackstone is nearing a $950 million deal to refinance its historic Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, The Real Deal has learned.  Barclays is leading a commercial mortgage-backed securities package that will be backed solely by the 757-key hotel,…

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Ohana Real Estate Investors buying Claremont Hotel Club &Spa

Several new liquor license applications related to the 276-room hotel, 41 Tunnel Road in Berkeley, indicate that Redwood City-based developer and investor Ohana Real Estate is in the process of acquiring the hotel. The luxury Fairmont Hotel chain and financier Richard Blum, the late husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, bought the hotel nearly a decade…

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Ohana buys Claremont Hotel & Spa on the Berkeley-Oakland border

Redwood City investor pays unknown price for the 276-room property appraised at $183 million MAY 10, 2023, 11:38 AMBy TRD Staff Ohana Real Estate is buying the 108-year-old Claremont Hotel & Spa, which straddles Berkeley and Oakland.  The Redwood City-based investor is acquiring the 276-room hotel at 41 Tunnel Road in Claremont, the San Francisco Business Times…

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Bay Area hotel market wobbles in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland

Famed San Francisco hotel’s “non-performing” loan gets shopped to buyers By GEORGE AVALOS | gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: March 1, 2023 at 5:30 a.m. | UPDATED: March 1, 2023 at 1:28 p.m. Fresh signs have emerged that the Bay Area’s hotel market is wobbly — including efforts to scout for one or more investors willing to take over a faltering…

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Report: Buyer Demand for CA Hotels Remains Strong

HOSPITALITY: 510 Transactions Total $8.6B in 2022 BY: KAREN PEARLMANAPRIL 6, 2023 After a record year in 2021 with 510 hotels transacted, buyer demand for hotels in California remains strong. The Newport Beach-headquartered Atlas Hospitality Group reports in its 2022 Year-End California Hotel Sales Survey, that last year marked the second-highest number of individual hotel…

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