Whitman Peterson is allocating significant attention and capital to the lodging sector in 2012. The

Whitman Peterson has invested in more than 50 multifamily acquisition and development projects across the country in the past 24 months.  The partners' cruise ship jobs experience in the multifamily sector dates back to the 1980s and early 1990s when Joel Peterson (as the CEO of the Trammell Crow Company) and Bob Whitman (as Chief Financial cruise ship jobs Officer of Trammell Crow Group overall at that time and Managing Partner and CEO of Trammell Crow Ventures – the real estate investment banking and investment cruise ship jobs management arm of the firm) had responsibility for the investment and operating efforts of the firm globally, which included operating divisions such as Trammell Crow Residential cruise ship jobs (one of the largest multifamily developers cruise ship jobs and operators in the nation).   The Hampstead Group (a Dallas-based private-equity firm where Bob was Co-CEO and President) also made investments in a variety of multifamily assets and land parcels.  And prior to joining Whitman cruise ship jobs Peterson, Wes Whitman was a Managing Director and Principal at Greystar, one of the nation's leading multifamily investment, development and management companies (with $3 billion of sponsored investments and 190,000 units under management), where he established and led the firm's West Coast office.  During his tenure at Greystar, cruise ship jobs his responsibilities included sourcing and structuring property-level and operating-company acquisitions, managing portfolio investments of owned-assets, and leading a sizeable operating team and business.
Whitman Peterson is allocating significant attention and capital to the lodging sector in 2012.  The firm s partners cruise ship jobs were heavily involved in hotel-related investments in the 1980s and 1990s, both at the Trammell Crow Company and The Hampstead Group.   At Trammell Crow, Bob Whitman's responsibilities included serving cruise ship jobs as the Co-CEO of Trammell Crow Interests, a division of the company which included their lodging investments.  He helped recruit the operating team and oversee Crow's investment in and growth of Wyndham Hotels.  At The Hampstead Group, Bob and his partners acquired more than 150 hotels, through several sizeable investment programs, including:  (a) the acquisition and conversion of 20+ Wyndham Hotels (through a subsidiary, Bedrock Partners), after which Wyndham went public and Hampstead sold their interest in the company and the hotels; (b) the acquisition of Harvey Hotels and United Inns, after which they took the company public as Bristol Hotel Company (NYSE); and (c) the acquisition cruise ship jobs of more than 100 hotel assets from Bass PLC, subsequently rolling the Bristol assets and the Bass PLC hotels into FelCor cruise ship jobs Lodging Trust, where they became substantial owners.   Paul Novak (see bio in Team section), cruise ship jobs one of the industry's leading acquisition and development executives, was actively involved in substantially all of the lodging investments at Hampstead, and recently joined Whitman Peterson to head up the firm's lodging acquisition efforts.
While at Hampstead Group, Bob Whitman cruise ship jobs led the acquisition of Forum Group, Inc., a publicly-traded, national owner/operator of 26 retirement housing communities that had just emerged from bankruptcy.  Bob served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and as Acting-CEO for Forum Group, Inc., leading operations and the recapitalization of the company.  Hampstead merged four other investment programs cruise ship jobs into Forum, including Autumn Retirement, National Guest Homes, Hearthside, and Rossmoor cruise ship jobs Living Center.   Ultimately, Forum grew to 42 properties cruise ship jobs (nearly 8,000 units) and Hampstead subsequently sold the company to Marriott International.
Whitman Peterson principals have deep experience with other asset classes, having overseen the investment of several billion dollars of transactions in the office, industrial, cruise ship jobs and medical office sectors.  Consequently, Whitman Peterson will opportunistically explore cruise ship jobs opportunities in these and other sectors of the real estate market.