LuxUrban Hotels, which utilizes an asset-light business model to lease entire hotels on a long-term basis and rent out hotel rooms in these properties in key major metropolitan cities, has opened three previously announced hotels in New York City acquired under long-term master lease agreements. Two of the hotels are in Times Square and the third is in the Flatiron District.
These hotels, comprised of an aggregate 368 rooms, will join the Wyndham Hotels & Resorts brand family as “by LuxUrban, Trademark Collection by Wyndham” and be onboarded to the Wyndham operating platform. They will also contribute to LuxUrban’s fourth-quarter 2023 operating results.
New Properties
With these openings, the company currently has 1,886 rooms open and operating. LuxUrban expects to add seven additional properties with 1,604 rooms during the fourth quarter of 2023 under long-term MLAs.
The properties are in:
New York City
- A 725-room hotel in Midtown (east side)
- A 168-room hotel in Bryant Park
- A 200-room hotel in Times Square
- A 145-room hotel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
- A 86-room hotel in Midtown (west side)
Miami Beach
- A 84-room hotel on Collins Avenue
New Orleans
- A 196-room hotel in the French Quarter
“These seven properties, once acquired under long-term MLA, will add density to our existing markets and deliver a substantial contribution to our results in 2024 and beyond,” Brian Ferdinand, chairman and CEO of LuxUrban Hotels, said in a statement. “Because of Wyndham’s support, we are now able to target and acquire larger properties, as evidenced by the four-star, 725-room hotel located on Manhattan’s east side that we expect to acquire during the current fourth quarter. This would be our largest property acquisition to date; however, we believe that it reflects the opportunity to acquire properties of similar size as we continue to grow and evolve as a company.”
The company continues to expect to have 2,146 hotel units across 21 properties operational by the end of October. This estimate excludes the seven hotels it expects to acquire under MLAs throughout the 2023 fourth quarter.