Hospitality & Retail

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Hospitality-related businesses are a core industry for HunterMaclean, which has offices in Savannah and St. Simons Island. Whether hotel companies or restaurants, retail or wholesale companies, HunterMaclean has significant experience guiding our hospitality clients through legal aspects including real estate, zoning, employment, tax, and litigation matters. We handle restructurings, workouts, complex financing, as well as leasing arrangements.

Related practices

Related Practices

• Business Litigation
• Business Transactions
• Commercial Real Estate
• Convenience Store & Gas Station
• Corporate
• Economic Development
• Employment
• Foreclosures & Workouts
• Immigration
• Litigation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Real Estate
• Zoning / Land Use

Representative Engagements

• Representing the Westin Savannah Harbor Resort and the Savannah International Trade and Convention Center on Hutchinson Island, just across the river from historic downtown Savannah. Over a twelve year period, we handled land acquisition, environmental permitting, zoning and land use issues, governmental relations including the annexation of the property into the City of Savannah, negotiation of a contract with the City that enabled irrigation of the golf course on the island with treated effluent, and formation of a public-private partnership that developed the infrastructure for the island, resulting in a combined investment of over $200 million.

• Representing numerous national and regional hotel, motel, and restaurant operators before the City of Savannah and the Historic Review Board.

• Counsel to regional convenience store in the re-zoning of development sites, site plan approval to allow for digital signage, halide lighting, as well as overall site development.

• Successfully represented national retail client in copyright infringement claims over fabric patterns.

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