EKN Walks Away From Entitled 56-Room Downtown Petaluma Hotel, Leaving City to Chase $860,000 in Costs
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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Newport Beach-based EKN Development has told the City of Petaluma it will not build the four-story, 56-room Appellation hotel it spent roughly four years entitling at 2 Petaluma Boulevard South, and the city has moved…
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