What: A 400-room, 7-story, full-service upscale hotel and adjacent 9-hole executive golf course.

Where: Parkview Avenue in Manhattan Beach, California. The site is a part of the Manhattan Village master-planned community, developed by Chevron Land in the mid-1980s on a former oil tank farm.

Who: The City of Manhattan Beach is the owner of the land. The hotel is operated by Interstate Hotels, and owned by Interstate and Marriott Hotels.

When: The hotel, which is the largest hotel in the city, opened in 1986.

How much: $44 million was spent developing the Marriott, which opened originally as a Radisson.

MR&A’s role: As hotel development advisor to the City, Mr. Robinson assisted in the preparation of the Request for Proposals (RFP) and the developer selection process. He acted as business advisor in the negotiations, preparing extensive financial analyses and assisting in the structuring of the ground lease agreement.

Results: The hotel, which is the only golf-oriented resort in the LAX-South Bay area, has been well-received by area visitors; the golf course is well-run by the hotel operator; and the City receives considerable amounts of rent and Transient Occupancy taxes from the hotel.