Johnson Capital in Alliance with Hospitium

Firm to Provide Hospitality Research and Consulting for High-End Resorts and Mixed-Use Hospitality P

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. October 14, 2008

JULY 9, 2007. Hospitality industry veteran Dr. Donald W. Wise is pleased to announce that Stephen R. Hennis, CHA, Managing Director of Hospitium, has executed a definitive hospitality research and consulting engagement to provide Johnson Capital with ongoing real time knowledge of the various lodging markets for high-end resorts and mixed-use lodging projects.

"We are extremely pleased to have created this relationship with Steve, and have both executed an exclusive relationship with his firm, as well as asked him to join our Johnson Capital Advisory Board with the other senior level hospitality professionals who proudly serve our firm as both our friends and colleagues. The Global Hospitality Industry investment banking practice will benefit immensely from Steve's approach to both research and database management," said Wise, Johnson Capital's Global Hospitality Industry Managing Partner. "We look forward to providing Don and Johnson Capital with the guidance they need to continue to build on their successful hospitality practice," states Hennis. "Our proactive approach to understanding the dynamics of lodging markets allows our clients and partners, like Don and his firm, to make swift decisions and stay ahead of the curve."

Hospitium will assist the Johnson Capital Global Hospitality Industry investment banking practice in providing high touch investment advisory, investment banking, transactional (brokerage) services, and financing placement of both debt and equity in the $20,000,000 to $300,000,000 range. These services will be primarily focused on the upscale, luxury and boutique market tiers of domestic and International hotels, resorts, gaming, condominium-hotels, and timeshare, fractional and mixed-use projects that have a lodging component to include:

---| Debt placement - First mortgage, subordinated/mezzanine debt, preferred equity financing for acquisition and refinance of single-asset and portfolio transaction;

---| Equity placement - New construction, renovation, recapitalization;

---| Corporate real estate services - Disposition of distressed asset and loan portfolios and/or loan sales to non-performing loans;

---| Bridge loans - Purchasing and participating in highly leverage bridge loans of existing assets, raw land on a case-by-case basis;

---| Advisory services - Preparation of sophisticated financial and/or market analysis of property, including valuations, hold versus sell analysis, feasibility studies, investment underwriting, transactional due diligence, and partnership restructuring and dissolutions;

---| Investment services - Asset management, development and acquisition services to hotel real estate investors requiring third-party expertise; and

---| Brokerage intermediary services - existing assets, sites, and portfolios.