A Thai luxury brand is betting its entire American future on 50 hotel suites inside a 50-story Miami condo tower that won't open for four years. The math on branded residences is seductive right now... but the operator math tells a very different story.
An $84 million mixed-use play drops a 141-room Marriott and 121 apartments on a long-vacant lot next to Ohio State's campus. The per-key math looks wild until you realize half that budget is subsidizing a parking garage the city demanded.
The post-Grenfell building safety regime was supposed to be about residential towers. Turns out, if your hotel shares a wall with apartments, has serviced units, or houses staff on upper floors... you're in the crosshairs too. And 74% of high-rises assessed so far are failing.
