Company: PEB
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001474098-25-000039
Chunk: 70

Company: Pebblebrook Hotel Trust
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 70
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Item 1. Business.

General

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust is an internally managed hotel investment company, formed as a Maryland real estate investment trust in October 2009 to opportunistically acquire and invest in hotel properties located primarily in major United States cities and resort properties located near our primary target urban markets and select destination resort markets, with an emphasis on major gateway coastal markets. As of December 31, 2024, the Company owned interests in 46 hotels with a total of 11,933 guest rooms.

Substantially all of the Company’s assets are held by, and all of the Company's operations are conducted through, Pebblebrook Hotel, L.P. (our “Operating Partnership”). The Company is the sole general partner of our Operating Partnership. At December 31, 2024, the Company owned 99.2% of the common limited partnership units issued by our Operating Partnership ("common units"). The remaining 0.8% of the common units are owned by the other limited partners of our Operating Partnership. For the Company to maintain its qualification as a REIT under the Code, it cannot operate the hotels it owns. Therefore, our Operating Partnership and its subsidiaries lease the hotel properties to subsidiaries of Pebblebrook Hotel Lessee, Inc. (collectively with its subsidiaries, "PHL"), our taxable REIT subsidiary ("TRS"), which in turn engage third-party eligible independent contractors to manage the hotels. PHL is consolidated into the Company’s financial statements.

Business Objectives and Strategies

Acquisitions/Investments

We invest in hotel properties located primarily within major United States cities and resort properties located near our primary target urban markets and select destination resort markets, with an emphasis on major gateway coastal markets and leisure destinations. Our hotel properties are located in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Hollywood, Florida; Jekyll Island, Georgia; Key West, Florida; Los Angeles, California (Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and West Hollywood); Naples, Florida; Newport, Rhode Island; Portland, Oregon; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California; Santa Cruz, California; Stevenson, Washington; and Washington, D.C. We believe these markets have barriers-to-entry and provide diverse sources of meeting and room night demand generators. In addition, we also opportunistically target investments in resort properties located near our primary urban target markets and select destination resort markets such as southern Florida and southern California. We focus on both branded and independent full-service “upper-upscale” hotels. The full-service