Hotels and Leisure Property.
ADVISORY BROKERAGE DEVELOPMENT
Hotels and Leisure Property.
LEADERSHIP
That's me, Mark Ellert, the guy with the corner office. I have a diverse 40+ year career in investment banking and hospitality investment/development, having been involved with an broad range of projects, handling underwriting, project financing, programming and development.
Some notable accomplishments include the sale of Fisher Island, an ultra-luxury resort residential community, purchase of the Pier 66 Resort & Marina from Phillips Petroleum and its redevelopment expansion, development of the Renaissance 17th St Ft. Lauderdale hotel and the Atlantic Hotel & Spa,at the time the first new-build Luxury Collection project in the United States and first-to-market luxury condo hotel on Ft. Lauderdale Beach, and pre-development of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Residences and Golf Club in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Sometimes, opportunities lurk in the shadows. With a group of local investors, I led the purchase of a vacant office building adjacent to the Broward County Convention. It's value lay in its easements that controlled the county's intended development of a convention center hotel. Using an unsolicited P3 strategy to propose a 800 room Marriott, our site was ultimately acquired by the County at a substantial gain to our investment group. The new county-owned 800 room OMNI hotel will open in late 2025.
IAG often collaborates on condo hotel and residential project with Premier Sales Group, a noted luxury residential sales & marketing firm working exclusively for developers and owned by my wife, Carolyn. I am the co-founder of Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts, a hotel brand extension of the popular Guy Harvey brand known for marine conservation, art and sports apparel. If you have a deal for us, let me know!
Some time back I earned a BA from the University of Texas and MBA from the Wharton School. I play at golf with a mean "foot wedge", but I am an avid angler and Lifetime Member of the International Game Fishing Association, You can often find me in the Gulfstream on my Buddy Davis or in the Keys on my Hells Bay skiff.
Whether its work or play, keep the head down and follow through.
Tight Lines!