Chartres Lodging Group, LLC

Chartres Lodging Group, LLC

Type	Private
Industry	Hospitality
Founded	1981 (San Francisco, CA)
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA
Key people	Rob Kline, President and Co-Founder Maki Bara, Managing Partner and Co-Founder Bruce Blum, Partner
Services	hotels, restaurants
Website	http://chartreslodging.com/

The Chartres Lodging Group, LLC, former Oxford Lodging Advisory & Investment Group, LLC, is one of the fastest-growing lodging investment firms in the country, with a $6 billion, 20,000-room portfolio of luxury and upscale hotels, conference centers and resorts in the United States and Japan.^[1]. The Chartres Lodging Group, LLC, is an advisory and investment firm focused on the property management, asset management, renovation and development of lodging assets. Chartres’ owns 30 percent of properties and are direct investors in 80 percent of this portfolio. The company was founded in San Francisco by principal investors Rob Kline, Maki Bara, and Bruce Blum of The Chartres Lodging Group, LLC ^[2] In 2006, Chartres Lodging formed its own internal property management company called "Kokua Hospitality" designed to provide additional property management resources. Chartres' most recent and significant acquisition was the purchase of the 4,867-room Adam’s Mark hotel portfolio from HBE Corp., of St. Louis, and renovating, re-branding and repositioning plans for five properties encompassing high-profile, convention-oriented hotels in Dallas, Denver, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Buffalo, N.Y.^[3]. The company's history of hotel investment includes the turnaround of various distressed properties as well as the restoration of historically significant buildings such as located in Chicago including: Inn of Chicago, Doubletree Magnificent Mile, and the Allerton Hotel.

The company manages and operates the following hotels:

Hotels

Sheraton Dallas		Sheraton Denver		Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch

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Doubletree Chicago Mag Mile		Inn of Chicago Mag Mile		The Allerton Hotel Chicago

Hyatt Regency Jacksonville		Radisson Lexington		Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel

• Sheraton Dallas, Texas
• Sheraton Denver, Colorado
• Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch, Missouri
• Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile, Illinois
• The Allerton Hotel Chicago, Illinois
• Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Jacksonville, Florida
• Radisson Lexington New York City, New York
• Doubletree Metropolitan Hotel New York City, New York
• Inn of Chicago Magnificent Mile Chicago, Illinois
• The National Conference Center Lansdowne, Virginia
• Hilton Omaha, Nebraska
• Aloft Washington National Harbor, Maryland
• Ocean Resort Hotel Waikiki, Hawaii
• Hotel Nikko Tokyo, Japan
• Royal Pines Hotel Urawa Saitama, Japan
• Royal Pines Hotel Moriguchi Osaka, Japan
• Royal Pines Hotel Wakayama, Japan
• Hotel Karuizawa 1130 Karuizawa, Japan
• Fusaki Resort Village Ishigaki, Japan
• Hotel Universal Port Universal Studios, Japan
• Hotel Nikko Narita, Japan
• Nikko Hotel Kawasaki, Japan
• Shin-Urayasu Oriental Tokyo Disneyland, Japan
• Oriental Meriken Park Kobe, Japan
• Namba Oriental Hotel Osaka, Japan
• Alivila Nikko Resort Okinawa, Japan
• Hotel Centraza Hakata Fukuoka, Japan
• Oriental Hotel Hiroshima, Japan
• Hineno Station Hotel Osaka, Japan
• Hotel Nikko Chitose, Japan
• Hotel Paco Asahikawa, Japan
• Hotel Paco Obihiro, Japan
• Hotel Paco Kushiro, Japan
• Kushiro ANA Hotel Kushiro, Japan
• Hotel Ishigakijima Ishigaki, Japan

Company programs

The company actively supports and participates in charitable organizations which include the following:

• Actblue
• Activ*Leukemia donation
• American Cancer Society
• American Friends Rabin Medical Center
• American India Foundation
• American Jewish Committee
• American Red Cross - Haiti earthquake relief
• Barnard College
• Benjamin Franklin High School Fund
• Boomer Esiason Foundation
• Boys Scouts of America
• Catholic Relief Services - Haiti earthquake relief
• Christine Webster
• Clinton Bush Haiti Fund - Haiti earthquake relief
• Community Impact at Columbia University
• Cornell Hotel Society
• Cornell University
• Cuomo-Marathon
• Doctors Without Boarders - Haiti earthquake relief
• Eastern Illinois University
• Encore Community Services
• Foundation of Orthopedics New York
• Future Women Leaders
• G.M. Memorial Fund
• Habitat for Humanity
• Help Funding Inc.
• Johns Hopkins University
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
• Kim Hudson - American Heart Association
• Lincoln Center Real Estate & Construction
• The Les Turner ALS Foundation - Lou Gehrig
• Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
• Marin Council
• Mission Neighborhood Health Center
• Mount Vernon Baptist Church
• New York Chapter JDR NY
• NYU Child Study Center
• Oberoi Care Fund (OCF)
• San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Foundation
• San Francisco Ballet Association
• Shawnee Institute, Ltd.
• The Bombay Community Public Trust (BCPT)
• The Mumbai Disaster Relief Fund (MDRF)
• Urban Land Institute Washington
• Vanessa Prout - Hurricane relief

References

1. ^ O'Connor, Stefani. "Getting Off The Sidelines Private equity players are now lining up opportunities to deploy cash." Hotel Business Vol. 19, No. 15. Sept. 7-20, 2010. Retrieved 9-15-2010.
2. ^ Oschner, Bob. "Oxford Lodging Establishes Internal Property Management Company To Facilitate Rapid Value-Add Program." XPR, LLC. Feb. 15, 2006. Retrieved 10-1-2010.http://www.kokuahospitality.com/pressf918.html?mode=detail&id=kokua_hospitality_established
3. ^ Oschner, Bob. "CHARTRES LODGING GROUP COMPLETES PURCHASE OF 4,867-ROOM ADAM’S MARK HOTEL PORTFOLIO." Feb. 8, 2008. Retrieved 11-5-2010. http://charterslodging.com/PR_Articles/AMCOSRelease020808.pdf

External links

• Official website