Darien Wright - Rethinking Extended Stay
Cornell Real Estate Review
English - September 24, 2019 22:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsInvesting Business cornell real estate spencer levy investing stock market entrepreneur hotels politics tax reform cbre Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our guest on this episode is Darien Wright, Chief Operating Officer of Brookwood Hotels. Brookwood Hotels is a portfolio company owned by a Brookfield Asset Management-sponsored private real estate fund. Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) is an NYSE-traded real estate firm with over 120 years of experience owning and operating real assets.
In our conversation with Wright we discuss the “start-up” culture of Wright’s team as they navigate the complexity of a larger organization. Utilizing a lean operational model at each location, Wright and his team have learned quickly through exposure to different experiences. With 110 hotels and growing, his team is making a name for themselves in the extended stay space by focusing on their end-users. Hear about all of these topics, plus career advice from Wright, in this compelling episode.