Lenox Hotels Sold for $38M

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LENOX, Mass. — Two Lenox hotels on the Pittsfield Lenox Road have been acquired by a Denver hospitality company in a deal for $38 million. 
 
Mission Hill Hospitality, a KSL Capital Partners portfolio company, closed the sales on Aug. 11 for the Courtyard by Marriot Lenox and Hampton Inn & Suites Berkshires-Lenox from Toole Lodging Group.
 
"The Berkshires are a top drive-to-leisure destination in New England, filled with a rich history and an abundance of attractions bringing in tourists to Lenox year-round," said Mike Wilbert, managing director of Mission Hill Hospitality, in a statement announcing the purchases. "We are excited about the continued growth of our portfolio as we further expand into New England with these two assets."
 
The Courtyard by Marriot Lenox was opened in 2017 with 92 rooms at a cost of about $10 million. Situated on over 6.5 acres, it has a bistro that includes breakfast and all-day Starbucks coffee service. Other amenities include an outdoor fire pit, picnic and barbeque area, an indoor swimming pool and whirlpool, upgraded complimentary wi-fi, a fitness center, business center, a 1,394 square feet of meeting space, and an electric car charging station.
 
Hampton Inn & Suites Berkshires-Lenox was built in 2008 and its 79 rooms offer guests a mix of king spa, king, queen rooms and king studio suites, including accessible, connecting, and pet-friendly rooms. Guests enjoy complimentary breakfast, an indoor pool, fitness center, business center, and 912 square feet of event space. 
 
The Marriot was sold for $25 million and the Hampton Inn for $13 million, according to documents on file with the Registry of Deeds, to MHH Lenox 70 Holdings LLC and MHH Lenox 445 Holdings LLC, respectively. The properties were held by Toole doing business as Toole Properties 2006 Inc. and Brushwood LLC.
 
The Toole Lodging Group's other holdings are the Yankee Inn in Lenox and Yankee Suites Extended Stay in Pittsfield.
 
According to the company's website, Mission Hill is focused on "transforming select-service and extended-stay hotel investing." The two Lenox properties are the 22nd and 23rd hotels added to its portfolio since the company was launched last year.
 

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Pittsfield Community Development OKs Airport Project, Cannabis Amendment

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Community Development Board has supported plans for a new hangar at the airport and a change to the cannabis ordinance.

Lyon Aviation, located in the Pittsfield Municipal Airport, plans to remove an existing "T" style hangar and replace it with a new, 22,000-square-foot hangar.  The existing one is said to be small and in poor condition while the new build will accommodate a variety of plane sizes including a larger passenger jet.

"There's no traffic impacts, there's no utilities to speak of," Robert Fournier of SK Design Group explained.

"I'll say that we did review this at length with the airport commission in the city council and this is the way we were instructed to proceed was filing this site plan review and special permit application."

The application states that the need for additional hangar space is "well documented" by Lyon, Airport Manager Daniel Shearer, and the airport's 2020 master plan. The plan predicts that 15 additional hangar spaces will be needed by 2039 and this project can accommodate up to 10 smaller planes or a single large aircraft.

Lyon Aviation was founded in 1982 as a fix-based operator that provided fuel, maintenance, hangar services, charter, and flight instruction.

This is not the only project at the Tamarack Road airport, as the City Council recently approved a $300,000 borrowing for the construction of a new taxi lane. This will cover the costs of an engineering phase and will be reduced by federal and state grant monies that have been awarded to the airport.

The local share required is $15,000, with 95 percent covered by the Federal Aviation Administration and the state Department of Transportation's Aeronautics division.

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