HotelNewsNow.com has an in-depth feature on the successes Nashville-based Lend Lease and hospitality giant InterContinental are having with a portfolio of U.S. Army base hotels. Lend Lease recently secured $275 million in financing for phase two of the project and should get its hands on another 20 or so properties next spring.

“I would think that on the heels of seeing the success of this program, they’d be thinking about it,” he said. “In the midst of the cuts out there, especially the government, they’re about defending our country, not running hotels. Why not have a developer and operator run a hotel for you? Let us take care of your soldiers, their families, your airmen or your sailors. Let us take care of them so they’re happy and can go do what you hired them to do.”

SEE ALSO: The announcements in 2009 and 2010 of the Lend Lease-IHG partnerships