Officials of the California Lodging Investment Conference have opened the nomination process for the 2023 Hotel Development Deal of the Year award. The winner will be announced during the sixth annual gathering, which will be held March 1-2 at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif.
“The Hotel Development Deal of the Year award is a fantastic way to spotlight innovation and development in the booming California market,” CLIC founder and President Craig Sullivan said in a statement. “In its second year, this award showcases the incredible work done by development teams around California. With the number of projects in the Golden State over the past 12 months, the competition for 2023 will be fierce.”
To qualify, hotel projects must be in California and opened between January 2022 and February 2023. All categories of boutique, full-service, select-service and extended-stay hotels, as well as hotel campuses (two or more hotels), adaptive reuse/conversion or hotel enhanced mixed-use development are eligible for nomination.
Nomination forms can be found at https://cliconference.com/clic-6-development-deal-of-the-year/.
2022's winner was JW Marriott, Anaheim Resort.
The 2023 hotel development deal committee is comprised of Bruce Ford, senior vice president/director global business development, Lodging Econometrics; Tim Edgar, founder and president, Hotel Innvestor; and Ryan Huntsman, vice president, Chicago Title Company National Commercial Services - California.