Kana Hotel Group is pleased to announce that, through a combination of new developments and management contracts they have added seven new properties in the 1st Quarter of 2016, with more coming in Q2 & Q3. This growth is on top of four other hotels added in the fourth quarter of 2015, including their purchase of the Embassy Suites Columbus, OH.
“We’ve had an incredibly busy few months with our new projects. In addition to our own developments that are underway, we’ve had a lot of word of mouth inquiries about third party management and are trying to be very selective and strategic with what we take on; we’ve actually turned down quite a few opportunities in the last six months.” said Kevin Mahoney, President of Kana Hotel Group. He went on to say “In Q1, in addition to other properties, we added three premium branded Hilton properties in Sarasota and Fort Myers, FL which are great additions to our growing portfolio of Hilton brands. That brings us to thirty-six Hilton hotels currently under our ownership & management, with another twelve under development”.
In addition to the recent third party growth, Kana is also opening more properties of their own consisting of:
- Hampton Inn / Home2Suites by Hilton dual brand – Louisville, KY- opening April 11th, 2016
- Hampton Inn / Home2Suites by Hilton dual brand – Hattiesburg, MS – opening August 2016
- Embassy Suites Atlanta / Sugarloaf, Atlanta, GA – Opening Q4, 2016
- Courtyard by Marriott – El Paso, TX – Opening Q4 2016
- Hampton Inn Huntsville / Village of Providence – Huntsville, AL – Opening Q4 2016
Upon completion of these projects this will bring the total number of Kana Hotel Group properties to sixty-one, with thirty-four of them being Kana Developed / Owned / Operated. Kana has another nine of its own opening in 2017 & 2018. Alpesh Patel, CEO of Kana Hotel Group said “Our development and operational record within the Hilton, Marriott, and IHG brands has been very successful, and our partners like the energy behind these brands and certainly the returns that are being delivered.” He went on to say “We just opened a very nice Holiday Inn Express Formula Blue last month in Newnan, GA and we have a Dual Brand Hampton/Home2Suites by Hilton opening in Louisville next week; four of our upcoming developments are actually Hilton dual-brands including our Downtown Nashville project”.
