“We continue to focus on creating value by recycling capital from
non-strategic asset sales into higher-yielding acquisitions,” commented
The 2013 revenue per available room (“RevPAR”) for the Hotel represents a discount of approximately 18.0% to the Company’s reported 2013 pro forma RevPAR. The hotel sale further enhances the Company’s growth profile and provides additional capital to be redeployed into coastal and gateway markets that is expected to translate into increased shareholder value.
With the sale of this hotel, RLJ owns 146 properties, consisting of 144
hotels with approximately 22,400 rooms and two planned hotel
conversions, located in 21 states and the
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The following information contains certain statements, other than purely
historical information, including estimates, projections, statements
relating to the Company’s business plans, objectives and expected
operating results, and the assumptions upon which those statements are
based, that are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities
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“expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “will
continue,” “intend,” “should,” “may” or similar expressions. Although
the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such
forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions,
beliefs and expectations, such forward-looking statements are not
predictions of future events or guarantees of future performance and the
Company’s actual results could differ materially from those set forth in
the forward-looking statements. Some factors that might cause such a
difference include the following: the current global economic
uncertainty, increased direct competition, changes in government
regulations or accounting rules, changes in local, national and global
real estate conditions, declines in the lodging industry, seasonality of
the lodging industry, risks related to natural disasters, such as
earthquakes and hurricanes, hostilities, including future terrorist
attacks or fear of hostilities that affect travel, the Company’s ability
to obtain lines of credit or permanent financing on satisfactory terms,
changes in interest rates, access to capital through offerings of the
Company’s common and preferred shares of beneficial interest, or debt,
the Company’s ability to identify suitable acquisitions, the Company’s
ability to close on identified acquisitions and integrate those
businesses and inaccuracies of the Company’s accounting estimates. Given
these uncertainties, undue reliance should not be placed on such
statements. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no
obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. The
Company cautions investors not to place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements and urge investors to carefully review the
disclosures the Company makes concerning risks and uncertainties in the
sections entitled “Risk Factors,” “Forward-Looking Statements,” and
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations” in the Company’s Annual Report, as well as risks,
uncertainties and other factors discussed in other documents filed by
the Company with the
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Source:
RLJ Lodging Trust
Leslie D. Hale, 301-280-7774
Chief Financial
Officer