Channing Henry

Biography: Channing Henry is Managing Director, Head of US for PKF hotelexperts, bringing a hotel development perspective to the firm’s extensive advisory work. She provides feasibility analysis, investment strategy, and planning and development services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Channing has an extensive background in hotel development and advisory work in the US and Latin America with a focus on lifestyle and boutique hotels. She launched Alma Development, a hotel development and advisory business in 2010, with a variety of projects in California, Colorado, Georgia, Texas, Mexico and Costa Rica. Channing partnered with the Kor Group to co-develop the 148-key Downtown LA Proper and with BV Resorts in the early development of a luxury resort on 1,500 acres in Baja, Mexico. She led the pre-development and planning of a 400-acre sustainable master plan in Costa Rica, a 160-key hotel in a converted motel in Atlanta’s Midtown, and a 200-key art hotel in Fort Worth’s Cultural District. She has advised developers on many hotel and arts-driven projects, with brands ranging from Amanresorts to Bunkhouse and Soho House. Channing previously worked at the Kor Group, where she helped expand the Viceroy and Tides brand footprints in Latin America and Miami through the acquisition and development of projects whose budgets totaled more than $1 Bn. She began her career in real estate as a consultant with RCLCo in Los Angeles, where she performed market and feasibility studies for public and private sector developments across all land uses. Channing is on the Leadership Committee for ULI’s Recreational Development Council and an Executive Committee member of the South Park Business Improvement District (BID) Board in Downtown Los Angeles. She has collaborated extensively with LACMA, James Turrell’s Skystone foundation and an arts-based community redevelopment organization in South Central LA, where she served as Board Presiden