Aman Resorts confirmed three U.S. market entries tied to Vladislav Doronin's $500 million joint venture with Shinsegae Properties: Amansanu, a 1,000-acre ranch in Texas Hill Country opening 2026, its first Mexico City property scheduled for 2027, and a pipeline of branded residences across North American gateway cities. The announcements follow eighteen months of quiet site acquisition and mark the brand's first large-scale pivot toward domestic U.S. leisure since launching Amangiri in Utah two decades ago.
Amansanu sits on former ranch land outside Austin, targeting the same micro-demographic that drove Auberge Resorts Collection to acquire Commodore Perry Estate in 2019 for $54 million. Aman's model layers 40 suites with 60 branded residences priced from $4.5 million, pre-sales handled through Hong Kong and Singapore family offices before any North American marketing. Mexico City's property occupies a restored colonial compound in San Miguel Chapultepec, a fifteen-minute drive from Polanco's Masaryk Avenue retail corridor where Hermès and Chanel opened flagships in 2022 and 2023 respectively. Both properties anchor the Doronin-Shinsegae structure, which committed capital in October 2023 with a stated goal of seven properties by 2030.
The timing reflects saturation in Aman's traditional Asia-Pacific strongholds. The brand operates 18 properties across Japan, Indonesia, and Thailand, with four more opening between now and late 2025. Average daily rates in those markets compressed 11 percent year-over-year through Q3 2024, per STR's luxury segment data, as new supply from Rosewood, Six Senses, and Capella entered Kyoto, Bali, and Phuket simultaneously. North America, by contrast, shows 23 percent ADR growth in the isolated-luxury segment since 2022, driven by post-COVID demand for domestic alternatives to European and Asian long-haul. Doronin's OKO Group previously developed residential towers in Miami and Manhattan, giving the joint venture pre-existing relationships with U.S. zoning attorneys and capital markets desks that financed previous projects at 65 percent loan-to-cost.
Allocators should watch three follow-on events. First, Aman's residential pre-sales velocity in Texas and Mexico City by mid-2025, which will signal whether the brand's $15,000-per-night resort pricing translates to $4.5 million-plus unit absorption in markets where it holds no operating history. Second, whether Shinsegae's Korean family-office distribution network can place U.S. real estate into Seoul and Busan portfolios despite South Korea's 8.2 percent tourism contraction to North America in 2024. Third, construction timelines: Aman's last three properties missed announced opening dates by an average of nine months, and Texas permitting has added 140 days to luxury hospitality projects since 2022.
The Mexico City compound already holds a certificate of occupancy for adaptive reuse, cutting eighteen months from typical entitlement schedules and positioning it as the likely first delivery despite the later announcement date.