The Alexander Marcus Design Team
The Alexander Marcus Development Team brings 100+ years of collective development experience, ranging from predevelopment to design/build, general construction, management, sales, and market analysis. We serve in a variety of hotel management and development supervisory roles, encompassing numerous projects as developers. Our experience in construction and design/build projects includes preplanning developments and projects, site logistics studies, constructability reviews, conceptual, schematic, design development, and final construction document estimates.
Our assembled team has a keen understanding of the weaknesses and opportunities in the hotel market.
Whether new construction, conversion, or adaptive reuse, we develop modern, iconic boutique hotels. That means quality stone and glass structures that appeal to the eye while delivering comfort that is immediately heralded. Iconic hotels demand highly desirable locations-which we can acquire because of our small footprint, imagination, and insight into municipality objectives. Not only can we adapt our design principles to different lot dimensions, we also reclaim old structures (adaptive reuse), morphing relics into dynamic boutique properties- while earning municipality’s benefits.
Our expertise in every facet of the boutique hotel industry coupled with opportune market conditions position us to become a leader in the industry in the next 5-10 years. With consumers demanding a fresh experience, we are built to win the future.
Marcus McNamara has over 25 years of experience in real estate development, construction and architectural design and over 13 years of experience in hotel design and construction management. Prior to real estate development and hotel design and construction management, Mr. McNamara owned several business ventures in the import/export business with China, involving innovative products, where he set up distribution outlets in hundreds of stores nationwide. Other business ventures include software development including imaging software and human resources testing workflow analysis.
Ave Alagar is a civil engineer with masters in engineering management. Ave has been the project manager/ coordinator for over 80 hotels. He’s managed design development teams, developed pricing matrix’s, resolved conflicting design data, has a working knowledge of ICC and related codes, resolves field related problems, negotiates with suppliers, and coordinates data requirements.
John Reeves has 33 years’ construction experience in leadership and supervisory roles, qualified to provide staff support, best practices and lessons learned to the team. He has been responsible for over 3 billion dollars of build cost. His range of product types of Mission Critical, Healthcare, Hospitality, Commercial, K-12 Educational, Retail, Technology and Green/Sustainable Building projects underscores his excellent reputation with Owners and Subcontractors. He is renowned for anticipating project issues before they become cost liabilities. Hishotel projects include The Joule Hotel, Dallas , NYLO Hotel, Las Colinas, and Sheraton.
Marin Management Inc., a recognized leader in soft brand boutique management, is right-sized for our needs- large enough to possess a deep well of experience, and small enough to be flexible. Marin will also assist in design analysis and implementation of our technology driven customer experience. Marin’s experience with a
differing hotel types - from small independents to large luxury Brands- gives them a valuable qualified perspective on successful hotel management.
Norman Patten, our architect of record, owns 30+ years of experience in all aspects of the building process ranging from master planning for individual sites, new town planning, conceptual design of new, additions, and remodels. Norman’s work includes inspection services and construction management.
Joe Dreiske, whose family has owned and operated hotels for 40 years, has a 25-year career in management, operations, finance and acquisitions, design, development, ownership, franchising, launching private ventures, and served as a major brand’s director of membership development. In the last 5 years alone Joe has sold approximately 150 hotel projects and his knowledge of the boutique market is second to none- having visited and evaluated 300 boutique hotels in that same period.