40+ Years of Experience in the Lodging Sector.
200+ Hotels.
Trusted Expertise.
Chimera’s founding chairman has directly led the equity investment, acquisition and development of over 200 premium branded hotels across varied economic cycles. Leveraging this extensive experience, Chimera focuses exclusively on sourcing and investing in well-built, well-located hospitality assets in stable & growing markets (urban bias) that are not performing to optimal levels.
Our Guiding Principles
Values
Chimera selectively partners with like-minded investors and operators that share our values centered around integrity, premium performance, mutual trust, accountability, growth and community. Being proactive while fostering a continuous improvement environment are also core values that we strive for in all that we do.
Strategic Equity Deployment
Each market and investment opportunity is evaluated on a stand-alone basis using a thorough, multi-disciplinary analysis focused on achieving ownership’s investment objectives while mitigating financial risk. Targeting markets that have sustainable and favorable projections of growth in population, employment, and possess highly desirable quality-of-life attributes, Chimera leverages its proven expertise and track record of sourcing, underwriting and investing in premium branded hotels to opportunistically select, and maximize the value of, each of its investments.
Best In Class Operating & Brand Partners
Having negotiated and executed in excess of 200 management and franchise agreements, Chimera has a deep understanding and ability to ensure ownership’s interest is fully represented and protected. With a deep-rooted understanding that the hotel and restaurant business is an operating business, the formation of Chimera is a decades-long culmination of building relationships with the lodging industry’s “best of the best” management and premium brand organizations. These valuable partnerships serve as a foundation for an efficient operating platform that allows us to execute in a confident and decisive manner.
Engaged, Accretive Asset Management
Chimera thinks and assesses opportunities like an Owner because we are Owners. With our own capital invested pari passu alongside our partners, Chimera rigorously asset manages its investments by partnering with the operator (1+1=3) to ensure our properties are well maintained and to make them more relevant, more efficient, more profitable and more valuable.