Walton Street Capital Mexico to Transform the Former La Tranquila Resort in Punta de Mita, Mexico as Conrad Playa Mita

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Affiliates of Walton Street Capital Mexico have obtained more than $1.7 billion in equity commitments over the past 10 years from domestic and international investors for investments throughout Mexico.  Walton Street Capital, L.L.C. is a private equity real estate investment firm. Since its founding in 1994, affiliates of Walton Street Capital have received total equity commitments of over $9.8 billion from public and corporate pension plans, foreign institutions, insurance companies and banks, endowments and foundations, trusts, and high net worth individuals. Affiliates of Walton Street Capital have invested and/or committed to invest over $9 billion of equity in more than 350 separate transactions.

Based in Atlanta, with offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, HRV Hotel Partners provides development, project, and construction management services for the construction and renovation of resort, urban and university hotel projects across the U.S., Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean. The firm was formed in 2003 by Richard Holland, a 25-year veteran in the hospitality development business. Under his leadership, HRV Hotel Partners has grown to a hotel and resort development company with broad geographic reach, having developed hotels and resorts under the flags of most leading U.S. hotel brands, including the development of The Resort at Pedregal, a AAA 5-Diamond / Forbes 5-Star resort in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.  Other notable projects include The Cape, a Thompson Hotel, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and Bishop’s Lodge, an Auberge Resort, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Contact Development Company (CDC) is a fully integrated resort real estate development company, specializing in the development of environmentally and socially conscious upscale resort and residential club communities and their related components including resort hotels, golf courses, private clubs and residential properties.  CDC takes great pride in creating truly unique and memorable developments that are “place appropriate” and harmonious with each project’s locale. Since 1997, CDC has envisioned, developed and collaborated on several resort projects in Mexico, including the Punta Mita and Punta Sayulita resort and residential communities located in the Riviera Nayarit.  CDC has also worked in other internationally recognized resort destinations including Hawaii, the Caribbean, mainland United States, French Polynesia, Costa Rica and Panama.  For more information, please visit www.contactdevco.com.