Every great development reaches a moment when someone says, “This place needs a hotel.” The land is ready, the vision is clear, and the community is behind it. Then comes the hard part: deciding what kind of hotel it should be, working with the brands, shaping the design, building the budget, creating the restaurant, hiring the team, and running it well for decades. That is the work RAM Hotels was built to do. We don’t wait at the finish line to take the keys. We join early, co-lead the hotel side of the project, and carry the heavy lifting from the first idea to opening day and beyond.
RAM Hotels was founded in Columbus, Georgia in 2010, and the Southeast is our home. Today we have 34 hotels open, 20 in the pipeline, and 7 under construction across Alabama and Georgia. We know how a football Saturday fills a college town, how a hospital campus drives weekday travel, and how wedding season can shape a small-market hotel’s year. We know where to find great people and how to keep them. When our partners need us, we are a short drive away.
We are also more than a management company. We develop, invest in, and operate hotels, and that changes how we think. Every decision we help a partner make, from room count to restaurant size to finishes, is one we would make with our own money. We want hotels that look beautiful on opening day and still perform in year ten. Because we operate Hilton, Marriott, and IHG hotels, from select-service and extended-stay properties to lifestyle hotels and soft brands, we don’t push one formula. We start with the market and the partner’s goals, then recommend what will truly work.
Olivine shows what that looks like. When we opened AC Hotel Auburn, we didn’t want an ordinary hotel restaurant. We wanted the place Auburn would choose for its best nights out. The result is a 186-seat rooftop restaurant with wood-fired Italian cooking, an open-air terrace, fire pits, and views across downtown and campus. Southern Living called it “a first-of-its-kind destination for this college town.” Olivine proves what we believe: a great restaurant brings the whole community through the door and gives a hotel a personality people remember.
The Former House takes that belief even further. In Eufaula, Alabama, a historic building on the banks of an old river port sat quiet for half a century. We saw what it could become. Opening in Summer 2027 as a Tribute Portfolio Hotel, The Former House offers 85 rooms designed to feel like an intimate boutique hotel, with tower suites, poolside balcony rooms, and rooms inside the historic building. At its heart is LORE, with its Dining Room and Bar, created to welcome neighbors as warmly as overnight guests. Eufaula is a small market, and a typical plan would have produced a typical hotel. Instead, we designed a reason to travel, with spaces for weddings, retreats, and weekend escapes that will draw guests from across the region.
That is what we offer every partner: local roots, an owner’s mindset, experience across brands and styles, and a talent for creating places people want to visit. We study the market, shape the concept, guide the design, build the financial plan, create the food and beverage experience, prepare the team, open the hotel, and run it for the long term with clear, honest reporting. If you are a developer with a site, a community with a vision, or an investor looking for the right hotel partner in the Southeast, we would love to hear from you. You bring the opportunity. We will bring it to life.
