# Blue Hat Partners > Blue Hat Partners is Andrew Swerdloff's real estate investment and operating platform, based in Los Angeles and Santa Fe. Andrew is an owner-operator, problem solver, and fixer for hotels, multifamily, and cities. If something is stuck, he is interested. - Principal: Andrew Swerdloff - Andrew's track record: $750M+ financed & developed; $275M+ debt & equity raised; 930+ hotel keys; 500+ multifamily units. - Expertise: hotel development and conversions, hotel capital markets (mezzanine, preferred equity, EB-5, 1031), multifamily ownership and asset management, adaptive reuse, entitlements (CEQA, California Coastal Commission), public-private partnerships, and civic revitalization. - Markets: Los Angeles, Santa Fe, Denver, St. Louis, and anywhere a deal is stuck. - Also: Co-Founder of CALS (California Affordable Lodging Solutions), a nonprofit for coastal revitalization and access (https://www.supportcals.org). Co-Founder and CEO of Hozzo, the agentic place management platform for district managers (https://hozzo.io). - Contact: ams@bluehatpartners.com. Book a call: https://meetings-na2.hubspot.com/andrew-swerdloff - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewswerdloff/ ## What Andrew fixes - [Stalled hotel projects](https://bluehatpartners.com/stalled-hotel-projects/): A hotel development or conversion stuck on capital, construction, franchise, or operations. Andrew Swerdloff has financed and developed hotels end to end, including a 401-key dual-brand Hyatt. - [Underperforming multifamily](https://bluehatpartners.com/multifamily-turnarounds/): Underperforming apartments, a management transition, or a renovation nobody else will price. Andrew Swerdloff owns and operates multifamily in Santa Fe, Denver, and St. Louis. - [Short-term rentals](https://bluehatpartners.com/short-term-rentals/): Converting units to short-term rentals and running them like a small hotel. Andrew Swerdloff built one of the top performing short-term rentals in Santa Fe: Airbnb Guest Favorite, 4.96 stars. - [Adaptive reuse](https://bluehatpartners.com/adaptive-reuse/): Vacant office, retail, or commercial space converted to hotels and lodging. Andrew Swerdloff co-developed a 258,000 SF office to hotel conversion and co-founded Stay Open. - [Lower-cost lodging](https://bluehatpartners.com/lower-cost-lodging/): Affordable, design-forward lodging through conversions and public-private partnerships. Andrew Swerdloff co-founded Stay Open and CALS and won the Port of San Diego lower-cost lodging RFP. - [Entitlements and public process](https://bluehatpartners.com/entitlements-and-public-process/): CEQA, Coastal Commission, change of use, city RFPs, and public-private partnerships. Andrew Swerdloff won the Port of San Diego RFP and led its entitlements. - [Hotel and resort advisory](https://bluehatpartners.com/hotel-and-resort-advisory/): Strategy, operations, and financial modeling for hotels, resorts, and wellness properties. Andrew Swerdloff advises owners from concept through operations. - [Capital stack gaps](https://bluehatpartners.com/capital-stack-and-recapitalization/): Mezzanine, preferred equity, EB-5, and 1031 structuring for hotel and multifamily deals. Andrew Swerdloff has raised $275M+ of debt and equity and financed $750M+. ## Projects - [Paseo Retreat](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/paseo-retreat/): Nobody wanted it. The scope that scared everyone off is what made it cheap. Among the highest rents in Santa Fe · Guest Favorite. - [St. Louis Multifamily](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/st-louis-multifamily/): I raised a fund, it was repaid on schedule, and I put the money back to work in stabilized multifamily. $7.1M raised. - [Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/waldorf-astoria-beverly-hills/): A $400M luxury hotel in Beverly Hills needed a mezzanine loan. $150M mezzanine loan · 170 keys. - [Hyatt House & Hyatt Place LAX](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/hyatt-house-and-hyatt-place-lax/): A 258,000 SF office building becomes a 401-key dual-brand hotel. $140M · 401 keys. - [Stay Open Hotels & Management](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/stay-open-hotels-and-management/): Commercial to co-lodging. There was no playbook, so I wrote it. Venture-backed · $3M+ raised. - [Denver Multifamily](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/denver-multifamily/): Not a passive check. Deep in the operations and the strategy. ~400 units. - [Whispertree](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/whispertree/): A stunning property with real demand, and a plan to match. Mendocino County. - [Oya New Earth](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/oya-new-earth/): All the ambition the setting invites. Dominican Republic. - [Port of San Diego RFP](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/port-of-san-diego-rfp/): A vacant waterfront car-rental building, a competitive RFP, and 20+ agencies to align. ~240 beds · vacant car-rental conversion. - [Downtown Santa Monica Leadership Forum](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/downtown-santa-monica-leadership-forum/): The right people in one room, pointed at the same plan. 140+ attendees · two sitting Mayors. - [Burbank Self-Storage](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/burbank-self-storage/): Storage is the asset class that behaves when nothing else does. Burbank. - [Ming Yang Wind Power](https://bluehatpartners.com/projects/ming-yang-wind-power/): I found it, and I took it public. Largest US IPO by a Chinese company, 2010. ## Optional - [Full text of every project](https://bluehatpartners.com/llms-full.txt) - [Home page](https://bluehatpartners.com/)