CRE Titans Talk Luxury Hospitality: How leading hotel owners are reducing and stabilizing operating costs while increasing NOI and NAV
An invitation-only executive roundtable for hotel owners, operators, hospitality funds, lenders, investment sales executives, family offices, and energy infrastructure leaders.
We’ll examine what happens when the energy infrastructure sitting on a hospitality asset stops being treated as an operating expense—and instead converts to income.
The discussion will be followed by a live deal session featuring a select group of off-market hospitality and CRE opportunities seeking capital, infrastructure partnerships, or strategic operators.
The Industry Titans
Mike Murphy — Energy Infrastructure Executive
Benjamin Brayfield — Energy Infrastructure Executive
🏦 Commercial Hospitality Lender — TBA
🏨 Hospitality Owner Operator / Asset Manager — TBA
Adi Soozin — 5th Generation CRE Investor
The Agenda
Part I: Executive Roundtable: Ask the Industry Titans
The CapEx Question
Why should a hotel owner fund energy infrastructure out of its own balance sheet when an outside infrastructure owner can build and operate it?
The Valuation Question
How do more predictable energy costs and new recurring revenue streams affect NOI, underwriting, cap rates, and ultimately the value of a hospitality asset?
The Resilience Question
What is the economic value of keeping a hotel operating when the grid cannot? We’ll examine BESS, distributed generation, peak-demand management, and the cost of an outage when occupancy and ADR are at their highest.
The Revenue Question
From EV charging to energy generation, what infrastructure can create a new revenue stream from the same real estate the hotel already owns?
Part II: Rapid Fire Questions
A practical look at how the economics work for both sides of the table.
For CRE Owners:
→ 80/20 revenue-share structures
→ Direct infrastructure ownership
→ Energy-cost reduction
→ No requirement to become an energy operator
For Capital Allocators:
→ Ownership of commercial energy infrastructure
→ Contracted relationships with creditworthy off-takers
→ Infrastructure-backed recurring revenue
→ An alternative to traditional utility economics
Part III: Questions From the Audience
No presentation. No sales pitch.
Just questions from the room on underwriting, roof rights, tenant and guest billing, interconnection, tax-credit transferability, operating risk, capital structure, and exit implications.
Part IV: Live Deal Session
The room shifts from discussion to deals.
A select group of operators and developers will present active opportunities to the panel and invited capital.
4 minutes to pitch.
4 minutes for questions.
Those pitching should be ready to answer questions about underwriting, capitalization, execution risk, infrastructure requirements, and strategic fit.
This is not a pitch contest it is a room that is interested in seeing the best deals of the season, before everyone else.