Maurice Robinson & Associates

Maurice Robinson and Associates is a boutique consulting firm specializing in the hotel and real estate industries. With over 30 years of experience, our expertise lies in facilitating the development and redevelopment of high-end, full-service hotels and resorts. Our team of experts has worked with numerous public agencies, private developers, and public and private clients to bring their hospitality and real estate projects to life.

Public Sector Advisory Services

MR&A has a proven track record of working with public agencies to facilitate the development and redevelopment process, resulting in new hotels, conference centers, and other hospitality-related real estate. Our team has successfully worked on various public projects, including the redevelopment of historic properties, negotiation of ground leases, and securing public financing for large-scale hotel developments.

Expert Witness

Maurice Robinson is an experienced expert witness, testifying in various venues, including Superior Courts, State and Federal Courts, Federal Bankruptcy Court, arbitrations, and mediations. Our expertise in hotel development, finance, and real estate law enables us to provide impartial and authoritative testimony in matters related to hotel and resort development and investment.

Hotel Development Services

MR&A provides market, economic, financial, and valuation services to the hotel development process. Our team of experts assists clients in choosing the right location, understanding market demand, financing transactions, and structuring hotel development agreements. We also provide expert witness services for cases involving hotel development disputes.

Hotel Development Consulting

As one of the pre-eminent independent advisors to the development of high-end hotels and resorts in California, Maurice Robinson has successfully facilitated the development of numerous upscale, full-service hotels in the state. Our team utilizes creative strategies involving building and ground leases, rebates of transient occupancy taxes and property taxes, tax-exempt bonds, and other innovative public-private financing techniques to make these hotel deals work.

Hotel Concession Contracts

Maurice is an expert on concession contracts, particularly in the State and National Park arenas. Our team has extensive experience in structuring and negotiating concession contracts, including those for the National Park Service, State of California, County of Monterey, and the Save-the-Redwoods League.

Hotel Development Agreements

Our team has extensive experience structuring and negotiating development agreements to facilitate the development or redevelopment of properties into upscale, full-service hotels and other visitor-serving uses. We have worked with public agencies, private developers, and public and private clients to negotiate Development Agreements for the development, redevelopment, or conversion of hotels, retail, timeshares, golf courses, residential, recreational facilities, conference centers, spas, restaurants, bars, parking, visitor centers, and other land uses.

Hotel Management & Franchise Agreements

Our team has considerable experience negotiating hotel management and franchise agreements. We have worked with public and private clients to identify, solicit, evaluate, and select hotel operators and brands for newly-developed hotels and resorts. We have also been involved in the process of reflagging existing hotels, both at contract termination and through bankruptcy.

Hotel Ground Leases

Maurice is one of the pre-eminent experts in structuring hotel ground leases. Our team has structured ground leases for various public agencies, including the Lodge at Torrey Pines, Hyatt Regency Mission Bay, Argonaut, Cavallo Point, San Jose Marriott, Manhattan Beach Marriott, San Diego Springhill Suites/Residence Inn, and numerous others currently in the development process.