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26 May 2008
Hotel Lawyer. On Thursday, June 5, 2008, The California Hotel & Lodging Association (CH&LA) partners with the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) to bring its membership a regional conference and trade show, the Southern California Hotel & Lodging Conference.
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25 May 2008
Going “Beyond LEED” in green hotel development. What do hospitality attorneys know about green hotel development, much less going “Beyond LEED”? 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 full presentation from The Hotel Developers Conference 2008 of Kip Richardson, Director of Business Development, Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects — WITH speaker notes. Kip is truly one of our “go-to” resources for green hotel development. His presentation talks about LEED — the de facto green standard, but then goes beyond those standards into an exciting exciting new arena of Sustainable Design including current successes and development on mimicking nature. Kip Richardson, Director of Business Development, Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects. Kip can be reached at (503) 892-7138 or kipr@amaa.com.
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21 May 2008
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 Stefan Mühle’s slideshow on two successful case studies of developing and converting LEED-certified hotels.
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20 May 2008
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 for your benefit, or will publish them here shortly. You will not want to miss this series of important presentations! Here is Howard Wolff’s slide show on Demystifying LEED.
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20 May 2008
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, and here is Tim’s full presentation.
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19 May 2008
Hospitality lawyer with ENERGY STAR and other green hotel resources from the EPA. At the recent Hotel Developers Conference presented by JMBM’s hotel lawyers, there were many valuable presentations. (See the rich library of articles on green hotel development here at www.HotelLawBlog.com. (Just go to the blog, search down the right hand side for “Topics” and then click on “Green Hotels.”).
The EPA wants to bring its ENERGY STAR resources to the hotel industry and offers a number of ways to partner for energy savings. Stuart Brodsky, gave all the delegates attending JMBM’s recent annual Hotel Developers Conference a lot of great resource materials that demonstrate the environmental and financial value of energy efficiency in new construction and existing buildings. Here they are for your library.
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18 May 2008
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 as reported earlier here on www.HotelLawBlog.com). 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).
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17 May 2008
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 thinkers 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.
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13 May 2008
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.
It is one of the most popular presentations here on www.HotelLawBlog.com. It is by 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 presentation provided by me or Suzanne. Click here to see the first article on Major Hotel Transactions, and here to see the second article on Hotel Cap Rates.)
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13 May 2008
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) at JMBM’s recent Meet the Money® conference. This was JMBM’s 18th annual hotel conference. Dan insists that “the glass is half full.”