HFZ Lists Shore Club South Beach front Hotel For Sale

Ziel Feldman and the Shore Club South Beach front (Getty, Google Maps)

HFZ Money Group is looking to market the historic Shore Club lodge in South Seaside, as the company’s economical and lawful problems keep on to pile up, The Genuine Offer has learned.

The New York-centered firm, led by Ziel Feldman, tapped Newmark to provide the oceanfront hotel wherever it the moment planned a luxurious apartment and hotel enhancement, in accordance to sources.

HFZ, which has lately laid off and furloughed workforce as it specials with lawsuits from loan providers and subcontractors in New York, compensated extra than $175 million for the 18-story, 309-key hotel at 1901 Collins Avenue in 2013.

The corporation had planned to redevelop the lodge into a 67-device luxurious Fasano-branded condominium, but canceled options and returned buyers’ deposits because of to the sluggish market place in 2017. Management business Sbe has been operating the hotel considering that it obtained Morgans Resort Group in 2016.

Newmark broker Adam Etra verified that the beachfront house is on the current market. In a statement to TRD, a spokesperson for HFZ stated the company is thinking of marketing the lodge or deciding on a joint enterprise associate to reposition the house.

HFZ is also struggling with a lawsuit from Morgans Hotel Team, SBE and an affiliate for more than $935,000 in alleged unpaid costs. The accommodate was filed last week in Miami-Dade Circuit Court docket. (Sam Nazarian a short while ago bought his remaining 50 per cent stake in SBE to Accor.)

The Shore Club was built in 1939 and made by Miami architect Albert Anis, and was redesigned by architect David Chipperfield in the early 2000s. Hotelier and Morgans Hotel Group founder Ian Schrager stepped in to handle the home in 2002, but it has not been renovated considering that then, and has deteriorated. It’s been closed all over the pandemic.

The hotel is 1 block north of the Raleigh Resort, which a Michael Shvo-led partnership plans to redevelop.

The HFZ spokesperson called the Shore Club “one of the correct trophy property on the beach front in Miami” and cited Florida’s “strong actual estate current market.” But the lodge industry has struggled, and number of qualities have traded due to the fact the pandemic took maintain in March.

A lot of borrowers are working with their lenders to increase forbearance agreements or seeking new sources of funds to endure, professionals say. Valuations are also a issue mark, as no just one understands when the marketplace will fully get better.

In advance of the pandemic, Virgin Inns had produced a proposal to pay out $235 million for the Shore Club, with plans to commit an additional $100 million into transforming the house. But that deal fizzled out.

“There have been quite number of transactions in 2020. We’re all a minimal little bit surprised there have not been more form of provided the mother nature of the instant. Liquidity is so crucial to sustaining your capability to get to the other side of this,” reported Scott Berman, a principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers, who sales opportunities the hospitality and leisure exercise for the firm. “The easy serious estate mantra is you have to have a keen seller and a willing consumer. We’ve experienced couple of each individual.”