http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/ en-us 2008-05-21T23:16:16-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/hospitality_lawyer_with_succes.html Hospitality Lawyer on green hotel development Here at www.HotelLawBlog.com, we have a rich library of articles on green hotel development. (Just go to the blog, search down the right hand side for "Topics" and then click on "Green Hotels."). But as we now publish the DVDs from our recent conference on green hotels -- which are free to all conference attendees -- we thought many of our readers would like to see the major PowerPoint presentations from our high-powered speakers, so we have published them here for your benefit. You will not want to miss this series of important presentations! Here is the Stefan Mühle's slideshow on two successful case studies of developing and converting LEED-certified hotels. Green Hotels jim 2008-05-21T23:16:16-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/hospitality_lawyer_on_green_ho.html Hospitality Lawyer on green hotel development. Here at www.HotelLawBlog.com, we have a rich library of articles on green hotel development. (Just go to the blog, search down the right hand side for "Topics" and then click on "Green Hotels."). But as we now publish the DVDs from our recent conference on green hotels -- which are free to all conference attendees -- we thought many of our readers would like to see the major PowerPoint presentations from our high-powered speakers, so we have published them here for your benefit, or will publish them shortly. You will not want to miss this series of important presentations! Here is Howard Wolff's slide show on Demystifying LEED. Green Hotels jim 2008-05-20T18:52:11-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/hospitality_attorney_on_califo.html Hospitality Lawyer on California Hotel Transactions. Our friends at Atlas Hospitality are one of the dominant hotel brokerage operations focused exclusively on California hotel properties. At JMBM's recent Meet the Money, Tim Edgar, Senior Vice President of Atlas, gave conference attendees an update on "A Transactional View of Hotel Values" in California. Some of the numbers were surprising. (Please contact Tim Edgar, Senior Vice President, Atlas Hospitality, tedgar@atlashospitality.com or (949) 622-3408. Meet the Money® jim 2008-05-20T06:00:00-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/hospitality_lawyer_on_the_hote.html Hospitality Lawyer on innovations in the conceptualization and design of hotels. Meet the Money® -- the annual hotel conference presented by JMBM's hospitality attorneys and their Global Hospitality Group -- recently concluded its 18th annual hotel finance convocation. About 400 industry leaders gathered in Las Vegas to hear from hotel industry experts what is happening in our industry, and what is going to happen. There were great presentations on recent industry data (Smith Travel Research and PKF Consulting), likely scenarios and sentiment for our near future (CBRE and LIIC), an analysis of major hotel transactions (HVS) and trends in hotel cap rates and values (Mellen), and much more. But in terms of the future, one of the most interesting presentations was the Hotel of Tomorrow or H.O.T. presented by Ron Swidler, President of Bon Aller, LLC (rswidler@bonaller.com or (612) 284-4747). Meet the Money® jim 2008-05-18T10:00:00-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/liic_top_10.html Hospitality Lawyer from Meet the Money®. For the past 5 years, JMBM's annual hotel conference has been privileged to premier the annual survey of the hotel industry's preeminent think on major issues affecting hotel investment opportunities and challenges for the coming year. Here it is again, providing valuable insight on what industry leaders think . And like consumer confidence surveys, or other measures of sentiment within an industry, these gems are more important as indications of what may drive decisions in the coming months than as actual predictions of future outcomes . . . although we often become what we think. Meet the Money® jim 2008-05-14T12:09:03-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/hotel_attorney_on_state_of_the_1.html Here is another one of the great industry leader presentations from our recent Meet the Money® program, giving us perspectives on where we've been and where we're going. In the next few days, here at www.HotelLawBlog.com, we will have all the presentations up from the following industry leaders for you to see, download, email or whatever. • Bobby Bowers of Smith Travel Research • Daniel Lesser of CB Richard Ellis • Suzanne Mellen of HVS • Mark Woodworth of PKF Hospitality Research Here is the presentation from Suzanne R. Mellen CRE MAI, Managing Director, HVS. (smellen@hvs.com or (415) 268-0351). You may also want to view earlier commentary on parts of this complete presentation provided by me or Suzanne at www.HotelLawBlog.com. Meet the Money® jim 2008-05-13T15:26:59-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/hotel_attorney_on_state_of_the.html Here is another one of the great industry leader presentations from our recent Meet the Money® program, giving us perspectives on where we've been and where we're going. In the next few days, here at www.HotelLawBlog.com, we will have all the presentations up from the following industry leaders for you to see, download, email or whatever. * Bobby Bowers of Smith Travel Research * Daniel Lesser of CB Richard Ellis * Suzanne Mellen of HVS * Mark Woodworth of PKF Hospitality Research Here is the presentation from Daniel H. Lesser, MAI, CRE, CHA, Senior Managing Director-Industry Leader of CB Richard Ellis, Inc. (daniel.lesser@cbre.com or (212) 207-6064) Meet the Money® jim 2008-05-13T15:14:27-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/jrb_draft_hotel_attorney_on_st.html Here is another one of the great industry leader presentations from our recent Meet the Money® program, giving us perspectives on where we've been and where we're going. In the next few days, here at www.HotelLawBlog.com, we will have all the presentations up from the following industry leaders for you to see, download, email or whatever. * Bobby Bowers of Smith Travel Research * Daniel Lesser of CB Richard Ellis * Suzanne Mellen of HVS * Mark Woodworth of PKF Hospitality Research Here is the presentation from Mark Woodworth of PKF Hospitality Research. (mark.woodworth@pkfc.com or (404) 842-1150 x222). Meet the Money® jim 2008-05-13T14:56:17-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/mtm_2008_bobby_bowers_str.html Here is another one of the great industry leader presentations from our recent Meet the Money® program, giving us perspectives on where we've been and where we're going. In the next few days, here at www.HotelLawBlog.com, we will have all the presentations up from the following industry leaders for you to see, download, email or whatever. • Bobby Bowers of Smith Travel Research • Daniel Lesser of CB Richard Ellis • Suzanne Mellen of HVS • Mark Woodworth of PKF Hospitality Research Here is the first presentation from Bobby Bowers of Smith Travel Research. (bobby@smithtravelresearch.com or (615) 824-8664) Meet the Money® Admin 2008-05-12T20:00:00-08:00 http://hotellaw.jmbm.com/2008/05/hotel_attorney_on_hotel_cap_ra.html Hotel Cap Rates are changing. What are hotel cap rates? What do the changes mean for your hotel buy or sell, hotel financing or refinancing, or next visit from the FDIC? What is the relationship between cap rates and equity return expectations?< What is happening to hotel cap rates? How does that affect every hotel buyer or seller, hotel investor or lender and analyst? Meet the Money® -- the annual hotel conference presented by JMBM's hotel attorneys and their Global Hospitality Group -- has just concluded another successful hotel finance conference with about 400 industry leaders gathered in Las Vegas to hear from hotel industry experts what is happening in our industry, and what is going to happen. Suzanne Mellen, Managing Director of HVS' San Francisco office is one of the experts I look to in this area (smellen@hvs.com), and she gave us some great information that I want to share with you today. Meet the Money® jim 2008-05-12T14:45:00-08:00