Featured Articles
Hotel Brands
- 1 hotels
- andaz
- baccarat hotels
- choice hotels
- colony capital
- crillon hotels
- denizen
- doubletree
- edition hotels
- extended stay
- hilton
- hyatt
- lodgeworks
- loews hotels
- marriott
- mgm mirage
  - bellagio
  - emblem
  - mgm grand
  - mx
- morgans hotel group
- national harbor
- planet hollywood
- schrager hotels
- sls hotels
- w hotels
- wyndham hotels
- wynn resorts
Hotel Development
Hoteliers
Hotels
People
SH Group
Starwood Capital Group
- Starwood Property Trust
Starwood Hotels
Topics
- alis conference
- branding
- casino
  - atlantic city
  - las vegas
- commercial real estate
- construction
- design
- extended stay hotels
- hotel financing
- marketing
- me
- networking
- real estate
- resorts
- Retail
- style
- this blog
- websites

Category: Hotel Development

More on Casino Investments

Andrew Calvo | September 4, 2007 | 0 Comments

Yesterday I posted a pretty lengthy entry about how casinos are the “next big thing” in real estate investment, and in that post I made some pretty bold predictions about how I thought that Starwood Capital would probably get involved in investing in casino developments… Well – today I came across a number of news articles (some [...]

Morgan Stanley Building a Ultra-Luxury Casino in Atlantic City

Andrew Calvo | September 3, 2007 | 0 Comments

Major investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse as well as other investment/hedge funds are starting to invest in industries outside of the financial industry. Real Estate for one, has become one of the most popular forms of investment by these firms, look at Blackstone, earlier this year they made the largest [...]

Pritzker Family selling a portion of Global Hyatt Corporation

Andrew Calvo | August 31, 2007 | 0 Comments

It was announced today that the Pritzker family is selling a $1billion stake of their Global Hyatt Corporation to an Investment company named Madrone Capital Partners (owned by the Waltons Family from Wal-Mart fame) and Goldman Sachs. Each company will pick up a $500million stake which will give them a board seat and a minority [...]

Starwood Capital Keeps Growing

Andrew Calvo | August 26, 2007 | 0 Comments

I read a lot, I get two newspapers delivered to my door every morning, I have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal online, and I frequently read the NYTimes.com throughout the day – that’s in addition to the 170-odd feeds that I’m subscribed too in Google Reader (usually averaging about 150 posts a day).. [...]