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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS  
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

NOTE 1 -                  DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (the “Company”) is a self-managed hotel investment company that was organized on June 30, 2010 as a Maryland corporation. The Company holds both general and limited partnership interests in Summit Hotel OP, LP (the “Operating Partnership”), a Delaware limited partnership also organized on June 30, 2010. On February 14, 2011, the Company closed on its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 26,000,000 shares of common stock and a concurrent private placement of 1,274,000 shares of common stock. Effective February 14, 2011, the Operating Partnership and Summit Hotel Properties, LLC (the “Predecessor”) completed the merger of the Predecessor with and into the Operating Partnership (the “Merger”). Unless the context otherwise requires, “we,” “us” and “our” refer to the Company and its subsidiaries.

 

Summit Hotel OP, LP, the Operating Partnership subsidiary of the Company, filed a Form 15 on December 12, 2013 to voluntarily suspend its duty to file periodic and other reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and to voluntarily deregister its common units of limited partnership interest under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). As a result of filing the Form 15 with the SEC, the Operating Partnership is no longer required to file annual, quarterly or periodic reports with the SEC. The filing of the Form 15 by the Operating Partnership did not impact the registration of the Company’s common stock under the Exchange Act or the Company’s obligations as a reporting issuer under the Exchange Act.

 

At March 31, 2014, our portfolio consists of 90 upscale and upper midscale hotels with a total of 11,353 guestrooms located in 22 states. The hotels are leased to subsidiaries (“TRS Lessees”) of our taxable REIT subsidiary (“TRS”). We indirectly own 100% of the outstanding equity interests in all but one of our TRS Lessees. We indirectly own an 80% controlling interest in the TRS Lessee associated with the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in San Francisco, CA, which we acquired in early 2013 through a joint venture.