Encore Hospitality LLC, a Mississippi-based hotel acquisition and management firm, sold the DoubleTree Tampa/Westshore Airport Hotel for a reported $40 million dollars. The hotel, located at 4500 West Cypress Street in Tampa, is just under 310,000 square feet and has 489 rooms. Hodges Ward Elliott, Inc., an Atlanta-based hotel brokerage and investment-banking firm, facilitated the transaction. The buyer was Shamrock-Hostmark Hotel Fund, LP, an investment fund headquartered in Burbank, California. Shamrock-Hostmark will keep the Doubletree name and take over management of the facility.