HRI Management
HRI Management
HRI Management
     
 

Honore G. Aschaffenburg 
Vice President - Hotel Development                       

 

 

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.