Hilton Garden Inn Ocean City Beachfront

OTO Development has announced plans to renovate and rebrand Dunes Manor in Ocean City, Maryland. Work is scheduled to begin mid-October and, upon project completion in late Spring of 2023, the hotel will re-open as Hilton Garden Inn Ocean City Beachfront.

Dunes Manor, originally built in 1987, was purchased by OTO in December 2021.

OTO Development, which is part of The Johnson Group, develops, owns and operates distinctive select-service hotels in premier markets across the country. In recent years, the company has emphasized purchasing and upgrading beachfront properties in popular locales.

OTO has successfully repositioned several beachfront hotels under the Hilton Garden Inn flag. The company recently earned an award for Hilton's 2021 Conversion of the Year in recognition of its dramatic transformation of a former Howard Johnson into a Hilton Garden Inn in St. Pete Beach, Florida.

The repositioned 12-story hotel will include 170 beachfront rooms with balconies as well as an indoor pool and a deck nearly 300 feet long overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. There will also be a café, an oceanfront restaurant and bar, and 3,000 square feet of meeting and event space. The hotel is a block from one of the best boardwalks in America (per The Travel Channel) and across the street from Jolly Roger Amusement Park.

Partnering with OTO in this total renovation project are //3877, designer; First Finish, interior general contractor; Valcourt Building Services, exterior general contractor; and Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH), structural engineer.