A big hotel near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport may be about to change hands — a harbinger for the industry as more and more hotel owners find themselves deep in debt and unable to avoid drastic financial negotiations.
The 387-room Atlanta Renaissance Concourse may soon belong to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. after owner Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc. (NYSE: SHO) notified investors Nov. 4 it had not made a $5 million payment to Mass Mutual and had defaulted on a $246.3 million loan that is secured by the Renaissance and 10 other hotels.
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