Michael Coolidge has been appointed as Senior Vice President, Real Estate & Lodging Development at CSM Lodging

Michael Coolidge
CSM Lodging, a division of CSM Corporation, has named Michael C. Coolidge senior vice president, real estate & lodging development for the growing hospitality company. Bill Upshaw, president of CSM Lodging, made the announcement. Michael Coolidge was most recently senior vice president-real estate & acquisitions for Watermark Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm based in Chicago, and co-advisor of Carey Watermark Investors, Incorporated (CWI), a $1 billion publicly-registered REIT. In Michael’s role at CWI, he was responsible for handling all real estate acquisitions and development activity as well as supervising the asset management activities related to CWI’s properties. Previous to this, Mr. Coolidge served as vice president of real estate for Hyatt Hotels Corporation, responsible for handling all full-service real estate acquisitions in the western United States and Canada. He has held similar positions for Sage Hospitality, and was directly involved in all of the company’s Urban Heritage Development projects, overseeing and implementing $1 billion in real estate development.

Michael Coolidge is an alumnus of Cornell | Nolan School of Hotel Administration .

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Founded in 1976, CSM Corporation is the one source for real estate needs of people, businesses and communities. The company develops, owns and manages places where people work, visit and live through the acquisition, development, leasing, management and ownership of quality real estate assets. CSM’s expansive reach in the commercial retail, office and industrial, multi-family residential, and hotel properties across the United States...