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Oct 01, 2013 News
The feasibility study conducted by the US-based, HVS Consulting and Valuation, has revealed that the Marriott Hotel, five years into its operation will have to borrow an additional US$1.75M (G$350M).
This is the latest in the glaring revelations being unearthed, as it relates to the financing structure of the Marriott Hotel currently under construction in Kingston, Georgetown.
This US$1.7M loan is in addition to the US$58.5M required for the completion of the proposed construction of the Hotel and Entertainment complex.
Chairman of Atlantic Hotel Inc (AHI), Winston Brassington, was asked to comment and clarify why the Hotel would need this second loan, five years into the operations of the project, but he asked that the questions be submitted via email.
AHI is the Special Purpose Vehicle created for the construction and ownership of the Marriott Hotel. AHI is currently wholly owned by the Government of Guyana.
According to the feasibility study, “additional financing is drawn at the end of the fifth year, while maintaining a Debt Coverage Ratio (DCR) above 1.30.”
This loan is scheduled to be repaid at an interest rate of seven per cent.
The report further states that this additional money that will have to be borrowed, will be considered ‘junior debt’ and will be repaid immediately after payments are made to the loans sourced by Republic Bank.
News of the additional loan to be taken for the Marriott Hotel comes on the heels of the word that Guyana’s equity in the hotel will not be repaid a dollar until the 10th year of its operation.
This too is documented in the feasibility study, of which only an extract was released by Brassington.
The hotel is designed to be a debt and equity project, with a US$12M investment securing ownership of the project and will in turn be responsible for an initial US$46.5M in loans to complete the hotel and entertainment complex.
Money from the accounts of the National Industrial and Commercial Investment Limited (NICIL) was used to invest in the Marriott Hotel Project, as well as a loan, totaling US$19.5M.
This is made up of a US15.5M loan and an investment of US$4M.
The US$4M invested as equity by NICIL gives it 33 per cent ownership, according to Winston Brassington.
The unnamed private investor that is slated to put US$8M into the project will own 67 per cent of the hotel and will receive returns on their money from the first year of the hotel’s operation.
AHI is still to execute financial closure for some US$39M of the required US$58.5M for the completion of the hotel but Brassington has downplayed any notion that this would not happen.
According to the AHI Chairman, “When we started the project, we knew that we were still missing the equity investor.”
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