Complex Projects Require Experienced Leadership
Partnering with owners and developers to protect vision, manage risk, and guide complex hospitality and mixed-use projects.
Partnering with owners and developers to protect vision, manage risk, and guide complex hospitality and mixed-use projects.
Sandy Babbitt Design & Development provides senior-level owner’s representation for complex, brand-driven projects where financial discipline, design integrity, and execution must remain aligned.
With deep experience working alongside owners, developers, brands, and consultant teams, SBDD is typically engaged early—helping set strategy, identify risk, and guide decision-making through design, construction, and delivery. The focus is not volume, but thoughtful involvement where leadership, judgment, and trust matter most.
Pendry Tampa Hotel & Residences
Mixed-Use / New Construction

Sandy Babbitt brings over 25 years of experience leading design, architecture, and development efforts for luxury and lifestyle hospitality, mixed-use, and campus-style resort projects, including new construction and adaptive reuse. Her work has consistently involved highly coordinated, multi-stakeholder environments requiring disciplined decision-making across ownership, brand, and consultant teams.
Throughout her career, Sandy has held senior leadership roles overseeing projects from early feasibility and program development through design, construction, and delivery. Her background includes leadership roles with hospitality organizations such as Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants and Montage International, where she worked closely with ownership groups, operators, and design teams on high-profile developments across domestic and international markets.
Sandy is known for her ability to operate at the intersection of owners, developers, brands, architects, and consultants. She brings clarity to complex decision-making, aligns diverse priorities, and helps teams navigate risk without losing sight of design intent or long-term asset value. Her approach emphasizes early engagement, thoughtful problem-solving, and steady leadership through the most consequential phases of a project.
San Francisco, CA
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