Full Name
Stan Kozlowski
Job Title
Principal
Company
CooperWynn Capital
Speaker Bio
Stan Kozlowski has spent more than 25 years doing one thing exceptionally well: getting hotel deals done. As founder and principal of CooperWynn Capital, he has closed over 100 transactions representing nearly $3.0 billion in volume, spanning acquisitions, ground-up development, complex restructurings, senior and mezzanine debt, private equity placements, and strategic asset sales.
Before launching CooperWynn, Stan built his expertise across a remarkably diverse array of firms that touched nearly every corner of the hospitality capital markets. From institutional private equity at Glenmont Capital Management and investment banking at CBRE Hotels Finance, to co-founding his own boutique at Forestpark Capital Advisors and serving as a principal at Neptune Hospitality Advisors — with earlier stops at HVS International, Sonnenblick-Goldman, Hotel Partners, and Insignia ESG — Stan has seen this business from virtually every angle.
Over the course of his career, Stan has worked on transactions that span the full breadth of the industry: development financing for the Courtyard Chelsea in Manhattan, restructuring the Le Meridien Cancun, asset management of the Waldorf Astoria in Park City, ground-up development of three My Place Hotels across Arizona and Idaho, over $103 million in financing for Pinnacle Hotels USA, and mezzanine construction debt on the Residence Inn San Diego. Recent transactions include a $30.6 million multi-tranche capitalization for the West Texas Big Bend Historic Hotel Portfolio, combining a USDA Business & Industry guaranteed loan, Historic Tax Credit equity, and C-PACE financing for the acquisition and restoration of three landmark properties in the Texas Big Bend region; a $32 million long-term fixed-rate financing for Suburban Capital’s five-property Virginia WoodSpring Suites portfolio, simultaneously refinancing four existing assets and funding a fifth acquisition at closing; acquisition and conversion financing for the 203-key DoubleTree Suites Detroit Downtown Fort Shelby, structured as a multi-tranche preferred equity and senior bridge debt facility supporting repositioning to Embassy Suites by Hilton; bridge financing for the conversion of the Holiday Inn Dayton Fairborn to DoubleTree by Hilton; and a CMBS refinancing of the Fredericksburg Inn & Suites in Texas Wine Country, among many others.
Stan is a Cornell School of Hotel Administration graduate with a concentration in real estate and finance, and a licensed real estate broker in Utah. He lives and works in Park City, where CooperWynn continues to close deals in markets across all 50 states and the Caribbean.
Before launching CooperWynn, Stan built his expertise across a remarkably diverse array of firms that touched nearly every corner of the hospitality capital markets. From institutional private equity at Glenmont Capital Management and investment banking at CBRE Hotels Finance, to co-founding his own boutique at Forestpark Capital Advisors and serving as a principal at Neptune Hospitality Advisors — with earlier stops at HVS International, Sonnenblick-Goldman, Hotel Partners, and Insignia ESG — Stan has seen this business from virtually every angle.
Over the course of his career, Stan has worked on transactions that span the full breadth of the industry: development financing for the Courtyard Chelsea in Manhattan, restructuring the Le Meridien Cancun, asset management of the Waldorf Astoria in Park City, ground-up development of three My Place Hotels across Arizona and Idaho, over $103 million in financing for Pinnacle Hotels USA, and mezzanine construction debt on the Residence Inn San Diego. Recent transactions include a $30.6 million multi-tranche capitalization for the West Texas Big Bend Historic Hotel Portfolio, combining a USDA Business & Industry guaranteed loan, Historic Tax Credit equity, and C-PACE financing for the acquisition and restoration of three landmark properties in the Texas Big Bend region; a $32 million long-term fixed-rate financing for Suburban Capital’s five-property Virginia WoodSpring Suites portfolio, simultaneously refinancing four existing assets and funding a fifth acquisition at closing; acquisition and conversion financing for the 203-key DoubleTree Suites Detroit Downtown Fort Shelby, structured as a multi-tranche preferred equity and senior bridge debt facility supporting repositioning to Embassy Suites by Hilton; bridge financing for the conversion of the Holiday Inn Dayton Fairborn to DoubleTree by Hilton; and a CMBS refinancing of the Fredericksburg Inn & Suites in Texas Wine Country, among many others.
Stan is a Cornell School of Hotel Administration graduate with a concentration in real estate and finance, and a licensed real estate broker in Utah. He lives and works in Park City, where CooperWynn continues to close deals in markets across all 50 states and the Caribbean.
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