Resort Industry Veterans Form RTK Resort Group

Consortium to focus on landmark destination resort and urban mixed-use communities

FOR RELEASE: San Antonio, February 21, 2007
Contact: John R. Kazanjian, Managing Director, RTK Resort Group 210.354.4800

John R. Kazanjian, Managing Director, has announced the formation of RTK Resort Group to assist real estate developers in seeing that their community development vision is brought to life. John Kazanjian states, “RTK Resort Group is a team of resort industry professionals who, having worked together on past projects, found a common vision and share the desire to create exceptional landmark properties.”

Joining Kazanjian as Directors are: Tony R. Dawson, Managing Partner of Carefree Hospitality; David G. Hanna, President of Sun Resorts LLC; Laurence J. Raba, Chairman of Raba Design Group, Inc. and RTK Development, Inc, and; Wayne D. Marty, Lieutenant General (retired), CEO of Modular Construction Systems International. The directors of the consortium have pioneered design, construction systems, development, usage programs and property management concepts for the resort and hospitality industries.

Kazanjian explains, “Landmarking is our ultimate branding process for creating a meaningful destination resort community. Each real estate or hospitality component of the mixed-use resort development is carefully crafted to its intended market to work synergistically within a theme that conveys sensible design and purposeful product structure. The result is the combination of everything a customer, employee or a shareholder experiences and perceives about the real estate. When this vision is brought to life, it should simply “feel right”. Sales of those real estate product components will then occur easily and quickly.”

RTK maintains an in-house multi-disciplinary team of master planners, architects, legal, real estate, construction management, marketing/ sales, finance and property management professionals who can take projects from conceptual design and entitlement stages through successful marketing and sales to winning homeowner association management.

Larry Raba adds, “RTK’s principals share a common willingness to play a meaningful role in the success of a project at any level. Whether one chooses to engage our entire team or just one member, our foremost priority is to work closely with you to understand your needs, goals and expectations. Then and only then will we move forward to create a landmark plan that maximizes the potential of your property.”

“A unique part of our expertise”, says Dave Hanna, one of the original development partners of the country’s first private residence club, “is an thorough understanding of the preferences of buyers along with the operational mechanics for assisting our development partners to incorporate shared ownership components such as Private Residence Clubs and Fractional Resort Real Estate into the use mix with other residential, hotel, resort and commercial development components.”

RTK Resort Group is located at 111 Soledad Street, Suite 700, San Antonio, TX 78205.