HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA—The resurgence of hoteldevelopment indicates that people are traveling again, andthey want their amenities, Bob Olson, founder and CEO of R.D. OlsonDevelopment tells GlobeSt.com. As GlobeSt.com reported last week, PacificHospitality Group and R.D. Olson havebroken ground on Paséa Hotel & Spa, aneight-story, 250-room luxury hotel to beintegrated with the 191,000-square-foot PacificCity retail andentertainment center also under development hereby DJM Capital Partners. We caught up with Olsonto discuss the new hotel, what makes it special and what'shappening in the hotel development arena.
GlobeSt.com: What makes Paséa Hotel& Spa unique?
Olson: It's an oceanfront hotel, andit's one of the last remaining oceanfront sites in California. It'salso on the most famous surf beach in the US and possibly in theworld. It will have tremendous ocean views—the rooms are 100% oceanview, looking up and down the coast and straight out. It's really alifestyle boutique hotel. I know that term is probably overused andquestionable here since it's a 250-room hotel, but it feels likeyou're truly at the beach. It's a beach atmosphere with a surfculture—not a dominant surf culture, but a playful one.
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Carrie Rossenfeld
Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.
