Transaction Overview
George Smith Partners arranged the 65% of cost reposition and conversion financing of a historic building to a 96-key upscale boutique hotel in Seattle, Washington. A 75-year ground lease was recently renegotiated to make debt financing more palatable. The capital structure implemented a historic tax credit funding to facilitate the property reposition and conversion of use. GSP underwrote the monetized value of the ground lease to articulate the gross lease payments were below the actual cost of what the land acquisition would have been to the project: IE; it is less expensive to lease the land rather than acquire in an arms-length transaction. Terms of the 65% loan-to-cost non-recourse loan are confidential.
