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With the sale of College Park’s Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham Hotels, Newmark Grubb Night Frank (NGKF) Hotels closes its third transaction near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport within the last eight months. Combined, the transactions for Microtel and nearby Wellesley Inn and Sleep Inn total $14 million in sales.
NGKF Hotels Senior Managing Director Sam Winterbottom, Managing Director Bhavesh (B.J.) Patel and Associate Barrett Corwin led an undisclosed seller’s trade of the hotel, which mainly caters to travelers flying in and out of the world’s busiest airport. Georgia-based 64J Hotel Groups LLC bought the Microtel Inn with plans to negotiate a new, long-term franchise agreement and upgrade the property with a planned renovation of approximately $400,000.
“Given its prime location near the airport and an Atlanta MSA address, this hotel attracted a number of eager investors. 64J Hotel Groups took the opportunity to grow its portfolio, create operational synergy with another hotel it operates in the area and capitalize on upside potential for product improvement. The seller, a large, South Carolina-based hotel company, successfully disposed of a non-strategic asset that it built in 1998,” said Patel.
“This activity around the airport reflects transactions that we’re successfully closing in primary and secondary markets across the country. Hotel owners see opportunity, and they’re seeking counsel for exit strategies, valuations upon a sale, strategies for a potential sale or re-capitalization of debt and the expertise to execute either scenario,” said Winterbottom.
The three-story, 83-room, interior corridor hotel is adjacent to Hartsfield-Jackson airport at 4839 Massachusetts Blvd. in College Park, off of I-85 and Riverdale Road (Exit #71) and 11 miles south of downtown Atlanta.
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