Expansion on track for two area hotels.Byline: Joe Mosley Mos·ley , Sir Oswald Ernald 1896-1980. British politician and the founder and leader of the British fascist party. The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Local hotel developer Richard Boyles Richard Boyle may be:
Boyles' Sycan Development will refurbish re·fur·bish tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate. re·fur and expand two of its existing hotel properties: the Holiday Inn Express at 3480 Hutton St. in Springfield's Gateway area, and the Residence Inn by Marriott Residence Inn by Marriott is a brand of extended stay hotels. The chain was launched in 1977 in Wichita, Kansas by Jack DeBoer, and acquired by Marriott International in 1987. As of April 2005, there were over 450 Residence Inn hotels in the United States, Canada and Mexico. at 25 Club Road in Eugene. Completion of both is expected by early 2007. "There is continued growth in Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. ," Boyles said Thursday. "Lane County lags other places, certainly. But I think parts of our community could be well-served by additional hotel development." The expansion projects will add 27 rooms to each of the hotels, pushing the total at the Holiday Inn Express to 85 and to 112 at the Residence Inn. All of the rooms being added at the Holiday Inn Express will be suites, and three will be luxury rooms with private hot tubs. That will bring about a name change - to Holiday Inn Express and Suites. "When that property was originally developed, we were new to the industry and didn't know how large to make that hotel," Boyles said. But the site was large enough for more units, and the original hotel was configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: to allow for an eventual expansion, he said. The Residence Inn was not initially expected to expand. But one of Boyles' partners in the hotel owns land adjacent to the property, which will make the new project possible. "We have contemplated the expansion of that property, and the time has arrived," Boyles said. All of the new rooms at the Residence Inn will be suites - 12 of them two-bedroom units, and the remainder studio suites. Boyles declined to say how much the expansions will cost. The Holiday Inn Express and Suites project is expected to be completed by December 2006, and the Residence Inn by Marriott is scheduled for completion in February 2007. The two expansions will not affect timelines This article or section contains self-references. For other uses of "Timeline", see Timeline (disambiguation). The following is an index of timelines found on Wikipedia. for Sycan's development of two new Gateway area hotels: a 90-room, extended-stay TownePlace Suites TownePlace Suites, a division of the Marriott International hotel chain, was officially unveiled in Newport News, Virginia on February 23, 1997. Less than ten years later, there are now 123 TownePlace Suites operating across the United States. by Marriott; and a 142-room Holiday Inn. "Both those hotels remain on their timelines," he said. Construction is expected to begin late next year on the Holiday Inn, with completion in 2007. The TownePlace Suites project will be started and finished in 2007, Boyles said. The TownePlace Suites will be at Kruse Way and Hutton Street - near the Holiday Inn Express and two other hotels operated by Boyles' management company, InnSight Hotel Management Group. The location of the new Holiday Inn has not been announced. Joe Mosley can be reached at 338-2384 or jmosley@ guardnet.com. |
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