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Liberty Hotel Advisors is a lodging advisory and investment firm with proven leadership in lifestyle and mixed-use hospitality ventures

Combining innovation, advanced analysis, and an integrity-first approach

Liberty Hotel Advisors, LLC is a hotel advisory, investment, development, and asset management firm that targets above market, risk-adjusted investment returns by executing well-crafted financial and operating strategies in the lifestyle sector.
 

The firm was founded by Bruce Blum, a 30+ year hotel industry veteran, former Co-Founder and President, GB Lodging, the predecessor entity of GFI Hospitality, partner at The Chartres Lodging Group and President, Doral Hotels & Resorts. He has led numerous hotel ventures and has decades of principal oriented advisory, investment, development, asset management and property management experience throughout four hotel industry cycles.

 

​Soon after Liberty Hotel Advisors’ formation in 2016, Bruce welcomed John Plunket as a Principal within the firm. Bruce and John had worked closely together over nearly two decades, both as fellow executives in publicly-traded lodging companies and as partners in a wide range of hotel, golf, real estate developments and related financing efforts.  The firm’s industry knowledge, network of relationships and breadth of advisory and investment capabilities are thus enhanced, along with its geographic presence of a Washington, DC office.

FEATURED PROJECTS

Sponsorship, Development Management, Asset Management and Distressed Loan Restructuring

Anchor 1

New York, NY

  • Co-developed the hotel and residences with GFI Capital

  • Building Underwriting

  • Operator Selection

  • Capitalization

  • Negotiation of Related Documents

  • Development Management

  • Redevelopment

  • Pre-Opening Asset Management

Awards & Press

Conde Nast Traveler 2019 Gold List - Of the 85 hotels, The Beekman was 1 of 3 hotels in New York City, and 1 of 14 in the United States and Canada.

Numerous domestic and international awards and accolades 2017 to date.

New York, NY

  • Acquisition

  • Asset Management

  • Development Management

  • Conversion of 100 hotel rooms to 34 Central Park view condominiums

  • Homeowner’s Association Board Representation

  • Refinancing

Awards & Press

Americas Lodging Investment Summit’s Deal of the Year

New York, NY

  • Underwriting

  • Programming

  • Capitalization

  • Pre-development Management

  • Operator Selection

  • Negotiation of Related Documents

  • Pre-Opening Asset Management

New York, NY

  • Asset Management

  • Hold/Sell Analysis

Awards & Press

Numerous awards and accolades as leading, trend setting lifestyle hotel achieving notable outperformance of comp set.

"Rooms are as eclectic as the clientele and Michelin-starred Brit chef April Bloomfield’s Breslin Bar and Restaurant is worth a visit alone."- The Telegraph

Brooklyn, NY

  • Ace Hotels’ first ground up development

  • Underwriting

  • Programming

  • Capitalization

  • Operator Selection and Negotiation of Related Documents

Awards & Press

"Brooklyn Just Got a New Hotel — and It Might Be the Trendiest Haunt in the Borough" - Travel & Leisure

New Orleans, Louisiana

  • Acquisition

  • Ownership

  • Rebranding

  • Asset Management

  • Renovation Management

Awards & Press

Voted No. 1 Hotel in New Orleans by Conde Nast 2017 Traveler Readers' Choice Award

Named one of the "Coolest New Urban Hotels in the Country" and #7 "Best City Hotel in the Continental United States" - Travel + Leisure

Palm Springs, California

  • Asset Management

  • Hold/Sell Analysis

  • Renovation Management

"Readers' Choice Awards 2017" - Conde Nast Traveler

DINNER WINNER Chef Named James Beard award

"Once you're inside, it's clear that a hip team of designers and artisans has created something magical" - LA Times

Berkeley, California

  • Acquisition, Debt and Equity Financing, of Historic Hotel

  • Achieved major operational turnaround, after takeover from JDV.

  • Outperformed financially, upon sale to strategic owner-operator, Graduate Hotels

Vieques, Puerto Rico

  • Secured for owner a release from onerous Rosewood Hotels management contract

  • Financed a Debt Restructuring for reorganization under Chapter 11

  • Secured new management and branding with W Hotels & Resorts

  • Sold to Reig Group, a Spanish family office

Various Locations

  • Capitalization and Due Diligence of the Adam’s Mark Hotel company acquisition

  • Five large group hotels consisting of 5,000 guestrooms converted to Sheraton Dallas, Sheraton Denver and Hyatt St. Louis coupled with the sale of Adam’s Mark Indianapolis and Buffalo

Irvine, California

  • Acquisition of defaulted first mortgage, negotiated a deed in lieu of foreclosure

  • Executed change of management to MeriStar, change of brand to Hilton

  • Achieved dramatic operational turnaround

Various Locations

American Skiing Company was one of the largest operators of alpine ski, snowboard and golf resorts in the United States

  • Advised Preferred Equity holder in taking over control of Common Equity

  • Resolved Major development and operational issues

  • Arranged for merger of management group into MeriStar Hotels & Resorts

  • Oversaw sale of 14 ski resort properties nationwide to other ski resort owners.

Awards & Press

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