Cloverdale Greenlights Esmeralda: 605 Homes and 160-Room Resort Hotel on Long-Stalled Former Mill Site
Why this matters
Hospitality has separated by chain scale and demand segment, with luxury and resort outperforming and select-service holding pricing power on a leaner cost base. New construction starts remain at multi-decade lows, which has supported in-place RevPAR and made conversions of soft-branded flags an increasingly active part of transaction velocity. For sponsors with operational expertise, the sector continues to offer one of the more compelling income-plus-appreciation profiles available across CRE.
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After two years of hearings and a late-night final debate, Cloverdale's City Council handed Devon Zuegel's Esmeralda Land Company the entitlements to turn a remediated former sawmill site at the city's southern gatewa…
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