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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Blackstone Forms Luxury Brand

NEW YORK CITY-Blackstone completes its merger with Wyndham International and places a mix of properties into a new brand featuring luxury hotels, resorts, golf clubs and marinas. Blackstone intends to invest $400 million in improvements to the 21 properties which are located in the US, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

By Barbara Jarvie | Updated on August 17, 2005

NEW YORK CITY-Blackstone Real Estate Advisors will invest $400 million in improvements to 21 properties it has placed in its newly formed LXR Luxury Resorts brand. This venture comes on the heels of the firm’s closure of its $3.24-billion merger with Wyndham International . Blackstone dubs the group a “collection” of luxury properties that will include hotels, resorts, spas, golf clubs and marinas in the US, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. LXR is comprised of 14 Wyndham properties as well as seven hotels and resorts from Blackstone’s Boca Hospitality Collection and Prime Hospitality holdings. Last year an affiliate of Blackstone merged with Boca Resorts Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion. Prior to that, the company completed a merger with Fairfield, NJ-based Prime Hospitality Corp valued at $790 million.

Management will include co-presidents Joseph Berger and Jean-Jacques Pergant and president of sales and marketing John Tolbert. They all come from Boca. Blackstone has also engaged a team of creative and culinary talents to help reposition each property. “We aim to respect the integrity and unique offerings that each of these trophy assets has to offer,” Tolbert says.

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