Sydney MeisterSenior Project Manager

Sydney serves as a Senior Project Manager on the H-CPM team, where she focuses on value-add initiatives, opportunistic programming and investing, and project scope definition. Her professional career has been deeply rooted in the hospitality design and construction industries, with project management experience spanning ownership groups, design and architecture firms, hospitality operators, and asset management organizations.

Over the years, Sydney has successfully overseen projects from conception to completion, bringing a holistic understanding of the industry’s complexities and nuances to each team and initiative. Her hospitality project management expertise includes market analysis, F&B strategy development, retail integration, brand selection, revenue management, capital planning, and more. She consistently leverages her unique owner/operator mindset to maximize renovation and design impact relative to overall project spend.

Most recently, Sydney worked at Ground LVL as a Project Manager for the Project Development Services subsidiary of HEI Hotels & Resorts. In this role, she was instrumental in developing the department’s processes, procedures, and standards as the team grew from a single project manager to a staff of approximately 15. She managed the scope, schedule, and budget of multiple active projects, assembling and leading cross-functional consulting teams across several disciplines. Sydney was also responsible for managing client relationships, external communications, pitching, reporting, and coordinating among all asset stakeholders. She regularly led negotiations between lenders, owners, operators, brands, and design and construction professionals. She considers strategic risk identification and mitigation to be central to her project management philosophy.

Throughout her career, Sydney has served as project manager on full-service, upper-upscale, and luxury renovation projects valued up to $35MM, and supported ground-up developments up to $250MM in an Assistant Project Manager role. She has also worked in design and project management across hospitality, multifamily residential, retail, and corporate office sectors, with firms including Hickok Cole Architects, Baskervill, and The Bernstein Companies.

Sydney holds a BFA in Interior Architecture from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University and a Master’s in Real Estate with a concentration in Development from Georgetown University focusing heavily on hospitality’s unique positioning as Real Estate-as-a-Business which she completed her graduate studies full-time while working as a Lead Project Designer at Hickok Cole Architects.

Outside of work, Sydney is a dual-certified yoga instructor, an avid reader (and audiobook enthusiast), and enjoys cooking for friends and family in her free time.