Opportunistic

Encore Florida RC Tampa WSS, LP

Offering Details

  • Location

    FL
  • Target AUM

    $18.2M
  • Target Exit

    2029
  • Offering Size

    $5.6M
  • Minimum Investment

    $800,000

Offering Overview

Ignite is pleased to present Encore Florida RC Tampa WSS, LP, an EB-5 Investment Partnership sponsored by Encore Hospitality and Prime Hospitality Management and Investment Group. The Partnership aims to develop a 122-key WoodSpring Suites economy extended-stay hotel in Tampa, Florida in compliance with the investment criteria set forth by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for the EB-5 visa program.

Encore Hospitality

Hospitality investments include hotels and lodging properties that serve business and leisure travelers through short-term stays and guest services. Performance is influenced by location, demand trends, and active management, and may fluctuate with broader economic and travel cycles.

  • $306M

    Total Capitalization

  • 42%

    Net IRR on all
Realized Investments

  • 3.0x

    Net MOIC on all Realized Investments

  • 43

    Realized Transactions

  • Extended-Stay Hospitality

    Asset Type

    Extended-stay hospitality properties are designed for longer-term guest accommodations and typically include in-room kitchen facilities and flexible layouts. Demand is often driven by necessity-based accommodations, corporate travel, relocations, and project-based stays.

  • Opportunistic

    Investment Strategy

    Opportunistic strategies focus on assets requiring ground-up development, significant redevelopment, repositioning, or restructuring. These investments generally involve higher levels of risk and are more sensitive to execution, timing, and market conditions.

  • Regulation D

    Investment Type

    Regulation D offerings give accredited investors access to private investments not available on public exchanges. These opportunities can provide diversification and attractive return potential, though they may involve higher risk and reduced liquidity compared to traditional publicly traded investments.

Why Invest?

  • Need-based Accommodations

    Typical guests include workers on longer-term assignments such as consultants, construction crews, and traveling medical professionals as well as medical travelers, residents in between living arrangements, and budget conscious travelers.

  • Potential for Stable Cash Output

    The Portfolio is positioned to benefit from consistent cash distributions as WoodSpring Suites hotels have historically stabilized within six to twelve months, following a compressed construction period.

  • Low Cost to Build and Operate

    Woodspring Suites’ efficient development model employs a pre-established architectural plan to facilitate a fifteen-month construction timeline on an estimated $18.2 million budget. Minimal interior furnishings, limited amenities, and a bi-weekly cleaning schedule enable the hotels to operate with a light staffing model, contributing to low operational overhead.

  • Strong Investment Activity Favoring Institutional Exits

    Among similar transactions within the extended stay segment, Starwood Capital and Blackstone recently acquired 11 WoodSpring Suites hotels for $1.5 billion, reflecting strong appetite for portfolio acquisitions from institutional buyers in this $16 billion segment.

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Milestones

  • Land Acquisition

    The Partnership acquired the land for a site in Tampa, FL, in August 2022.

  • Construction Start

    Groundbreaking on the Tampa development began in January 2025.

Locations

As of June 2025, unless otherwise noted. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. The information contained in this document is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any securities. Securities will only be offered through confidential offering materials delivered to suitable, accredited investors and will be offered and sold pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act only to persons who are accredited investors within Rule 501(a) promulgated under the Securities Act. Private security transactions involve a high degree of risk and are not suitable for all investors. Securities transactions conducted through Umergence, LLC. Member FINRA and SIPC.

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Brenda Grogan

Executive Director

Brenda Grogan is responsible for developing and maintaining investor relationships for Ignite Investments. Brenda has more than 25 years of commercial real estate development, investments, and brokerage experience and has raised more than $195 million dollars in equity through Encore-sponsored products. Previously, Brenda was director of commercial real estate for Hudson & Marshall, exceeding $2 billion in transactions through sales and auctions.

Prior to that, she was vice president of investments at Henry S. Miller. Brenda earned a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from Louisiana State University. She holds a Real Estate Commissioners Broker’s License as well as the Series 22 and Series 63 registrations.

Brenda is a registered representative of Umergence, LLC.

Daisy Chen, CFA

Executive Director

Daisy Chen, CFA, is Executive Director, responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with Ignite Investments’ high net worth and international clients. Daisy has more than 15 years of experience in the securities, financial advising, and private equity industry. Since joining the firm in 2012, she has managed relationships with high-net-worth individuals representing more than $155 million in equity on behalf of Ignite and its sponsors.

Prior to joining Ignite, Daisy was a financial analyst at Trinity Private Equity Group. Before that, she worked at NY Life Securities as a financial advisor managing portfolios of retail investors. Daisy earned a Master of Science in management information systems from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Bachelor of Science from East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. Daisy holds her Series 22 and Series 63 securities licenses and has earned a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. In her spare time, she is an instructor of a Level 3 CFA review course.

Daisy is a registered representative of Umergence, LLC.

Nami Nafissi

Senior Associate, Investor Relations

Nami is responsible for maintaining investor relationships and providing client support for Ignite Investments. He has more than six years of experience in real estate law. Previously, Nami was a case clerk at Clark Hill Strasburger (formerly Strasburger & Price LLP), working within the industry litigation practice group. Prior to that, Nami served in the AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program through the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) working in business development for Habitat for Humanity. Nami earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Louisiana State University’s E.J. Ourso College of Business.
 
Nami Nafissi is a registered representative of Umergence, LLC.

Nili Sangani

Managing Principal

Nili Sangani serves as a Senior Vice President at Encore Enterprises where she plays an integral role in the management of several investment partnerships, the management of select shared service functions within the firm, and strategic oversight of the firm’s high net worth capital raising activities via Encore’s capital raising subsidiary, Ignite. Nili is also an active member of the Board of Directors of Encore Enterprises and Encore Properties, Ltd. Over the course of her career, she has overseen and managed relationships with investors representing nearly $1.5 billion in equity. Prior to joining Encore in 2014, Nili worked as an investment banker in the Real Estate Group of Raymond James & Associates in New York and Florida, where she was responsible for executing a variety of public and private M&A and capital market transactions for clients across the hospitality, multifamily, student housing, industrial, single-tenant net lease, and GSA sectors, with a particular emphasis on listed REITs. Nili earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business, where she graduated with honors. Nili holds the Securities Industry Essentials License as well as the Series 7 and Series 63 registrations. Nili is a registered representative of Umergence, LLC. testttttttttttt