Hotels

AUSTIN-Jane Snoddy Smith, a five-year partner with Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, is national president-elect of the 7,621-member organization.

PHILADELPHIA-The hospitality REIT takes full ownership of the 250-room asset at 1301 Race St., which it bought in a joint venture in January 2006.

WALNUT HILLS, KY-The university is leasing the off-campus site to the developer, which will build retail, apartments, condos, offices, a hotel and a fitness center.

BIRMINGHAM, AL-With the deal closed, the new owner will put another $5.5 million into upgrading the 25-year-old Hilton Birmingham at Perimeter Park.

MIAMI-Preferred Hotels & Resorts will operate and Distinctive Lifestyle will manage the Blue at Doral 240-unit hotel condo project under construction along fairways of Doral Blue Monster.

CARSON, CA-Harvard Grand Investment Inc. of Los Angeles buys the Doubletree Carson Civic Plaza Hotel in a transaction brokered by PKF Capital.

GERMANTOWN, TN-The vote sets up an Oct. 22 closing date for the transaction between the locally based hotel REIT and an affiliate of Whitehall.

MIAMI-The condo hotel project includes restoration of the 44-room Sovereign Hotel and construction of a 15-story, 67-unit condominium tower.