Big Chicago Hotel Co. Looking for Investors

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Watermark Lodging Trust, a Chicago-based hotel company created in the middle of the coronavirus lockdown is looking for financial help.

The real estate investment trust, which was formed in April by a merger of two Carey Watermark Investors REITs, is pitching private-equity firms and other funds.

With travel limited by stay-at-home orders and fears of another peak in coronavirus cases, hotels are suffering.

Chalk it up to bad timing for Watermark, whose portfolio of 32 hotels includes the 560-room Renaissance Chicago Downtown. But hotel owners of all shapes and sizes are reeling from the "almost cataclysmic event" of COVID-19 shutdowns and many are looking for financial relief, said hotel developer Bob Habeeb, CEO of Chicago-based Maverick Hotels & Restaurants.

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