Hotel and hospitality development
From opportunity
to operation.
We build hospitality businesses. Not just hotels.
Hilton Bournemouth — developed, owned and operated
01 — Introduction
THAT DM works with landlords, investors and building owners to create, develop and operate hotel, hospitality and leisure assets. We can take an opportunity from the first idea through development, opening and operation, or step in where our experience adds most value.
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Assets created
Hotel, leisure and mixed-use value developed and held by the group.
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Years operating
Three decades of buying, building and running the finished thing.
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Own capital
Every scheme funded from the group balance sheet. Never fee-first.
02 — Position
Built as a principal.
Now working for you.
THAT Group grew from a family office investing its own capital. Our experience wasn’t built advising from the sidelines. We bought. We funded. We developed. We opened. We operated. We have delivered branded hotels, restaurants, bars, workspace, leisure and mixed-use destinations, and we still own and operate many of them today. We think like an owner because we are one.
About THAT DM
Anyone can draw a hotel. Fewer people have signed for one.
03 — Proof
Buildings we backed with our own money.
04 — The journey
Five stages. We can take all of them, or the ones that matter.
- 01
Opportunity
Is there a business here at all? We answer that before anyone spends money finding out.
- 02
Strategy
Use, brand, operating model and the numbers that have to hold once it opens.
- 03
Development
Design, cost and programme decided by how the building will earn, not how it draws.
- 04
Opening
Recruitment, systems, standards and the unglamorous detail that makes week one work.
- 05
Operation
Running it, or holding whoever does to the standard an owner would expect.
05 — Landlords
Are you a landlord with an underused building?
A vacant floorplate, a tired office block, a site with consent that never moved. Hotel, hospitality and leisure use can be the answer, and often it is not. We will tell you which, early, before anyone has spent money finding out the hard way.
We know what it feels like to have capital at risk. It makes you challenge harder, think further ahead and care about what happens after opening.
Test an idea with usHave an opportunity? Let’s talk.
Danny Hazlehurst · danny.hazlehurst@thatgroup.co.uk