
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 engaged early helps set strategy, identify risk, and guide decision-making through design, construction, and delivery.
Engagements are intentionally focused to allow for deep involvement on projects where experienced leadership and trusted judgment have the greatest impact

Senior-level guidance during the earliest stages of development, when decisions have the greatest impact. Services include vision alignment, program strategy, brand and operational integration, and early risk identification to support informed investment decisions.
Advocating for owners and developers throughout the development process.
Aligning interests across ownership, brand, design, consultants, and operators to ensure decisions remain grounded in project goals, financial discipline, and long-term asset value.
Integrating program, design intent, brand standards, and operational requirements across all phases. Bridging vision and execution to support design teams while protecting owner priorities and ensuring continuity from concept through delivery.
Executive-level oversight during construction to protect project outcomes. Focused on scope, quality, budget, and schedule with early identifying and resolution of risks. Strategic decision-making, e alignment between design intent, financial expectations, and field execution.
Supporting owners through final delivery, transition, and closeout to ensure projects meet original objectives. Services focus on accountability, issue resolution, and maintaining continuity through completion.
Pendry Tampa
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 management, 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 crossroads, 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.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, working with owners and developers globally.
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