Education
Bachelor of Science, Major – Hotel Administration, 1979,
Cornell University
Experience
Mr. Aschaffenburg has
returned to a full-time role in hotel development for HRI
Properties after leading HRI Lodging, the hotel management group
for the past five years. Mr. Aschaffenburg is responsible for
identifying and structuring hotel development opportunities –
new construction, adaptive re-use and restoration; as well as
procuring potential conversions and new management
contracts.
During his career with
HRI (since 1998), Mr. Aschaffenburg has served as the Development
project manager on the 282 room new construction urban infill
Hilton Garden Inn Convention Center, the 155 room historic adaptive
re-use Hilton Garden Inn French Quarter/CBD, both in Downtown New
Orleans; as well as a new construction 313 unit full-service Hilton
Shreveport Convention Center. Mr. Aschaffenburg also participated
in the development of the 250 room Hilton Garden Inn Richmond, VA
downtown (Miller & Rhodes) and the 186 unit Hilton Garden Inn
Jackson, MS downtown (King Edward Hotel), both historic mixed use
developments and the conversion of the Chateau Bourbon Hotel of New
Orleans into a Wyndham Historic Hotel.
Prior to his association
with HRI, Mr. Aschaffenburg spent five years with the First
National Bank of Commerce of New Orleans specializing in
Hospitality Financing for clients such as Hilton, Fairmont,
Wyndham, TRT Holdings (Omni), FelCor, and Equity Inns. Before
his career in Banking, Mr. Aschaffenburg was the Director of Resort
and Hotel Development for Landmark Land Co., preeminent developers
of “world-class” golf course communities such as Carmel
Valley Ranch, La Quinta, Kiawah Island and Palm Beach Polo
Club.
Mr. Aschaffenburg also
has an extensive hotel (and food and beverage) operations
background having served in various management capacities at the
Pontchartrain Hotel of New Orleans (a Harpers and Queens best 100
hotels in the world), the Ritz Carlton of Boston, the Wentworth-by
the-Sea in New Castle, NH, the Stanford Court of San Francisco, The
Royal Orleans of New Orleans, The Waterford Hotel of Oklahoma City,
The Alameda Plaza (now the Intercontinental) of Kansas
City.