Hotel Development Services
During his 35 years in the hotel industry focused upon upper-upscale and luxury boutique hotels, Spelts has been involved in planning and opening more than two dozen hotels. His career has taken him from Charleston to New York City, New Orleans, Dallas, and back to Charleston.
The dozens of award-winning hotel projects that he has guided succeed because of a focus on creating authentic identities that inform the design and the service model to create guest experiences that feel authentic and are memorable. Equally as important to successful projects has been selecting the right team including the branding agencies, architects, interior designers, and general contractors for each project.
Larry’s development experience includes single assets as well as a master-planned community, the $500MM mixed-use Village of Dallas project for Lincoln Property Company that he participated in planning 2015-2017 and then led completion and opening preparations in 2018 and 2019. Other recent projects include the Drey Hotel in Dallas, TX, Skyline Lodge in Highlands, NC, the Flatiron Hotel in Asheville, NC, and the George Hotel in Georgetown, SC among other, earlier projects and viewable in the photos below.
