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| Work is under way along U.S. Highway 90 West for what will be a five-story Comfort Suites hotel. The hotel is the project of hotel moguls Nick and P.J. Patel. TROY ROBERTS/Lake City Reporter |
Groundbreaking set for Feb. 22 on Comfort Suites hotel.
By TROY ROBERTS
troberts@lakecityreporter.com
Construction of a new five-story hotel will begin soon and groundbreaking on the facility will take place in less than two weeks, according to officials.
Hotel moguls Nick and P.J. Patel will construct a new Comfort Suites hotel at the site of the old Guesthouse Inn and Suites, which was torn down in 2005.
“We bought this land a couple of years ago and we wanted to build a new hotel here, so we’re very excited that this is going to happen,” Nick Patel said Friday. Nick, who along with his uncle P.J. Patel, own Lake City’s Hampton Inn and Suites and Country Inn and Suites, along with two other hotels in Gainesville and Valdosta, Ga.
He said that Jim Dix from Dix Construction of Flagler Beach is the project manager and that work has already begun on the site. An official groundbreaking will take place on Feb. 22.
Nick Patel said the hotel will consist of 94 rooms — all suites. He said he hopes the hotel will be completed by January 2009.
“It’s definitely going to change the landscape of the area because we do not have any tall buildings like this at this exit,” he said.
Patel had previously mentioned the possibility of a conference center attached to the suites hotel but said that, if the addition was to be built, it would be after the hotel is finished.
“We would be very interested in building a conference center but not at this point,” he said.
He also noted he had received several calls about adding a restaurant to the hotel.
“We are not using the entire frontage but I believe a good
restaurant will only come once we build the hotel,” Patel said. “So we’ll see what happens once that is done.”
Hotel moguls Nick and P.J. Patel will construct a new Comfort Suites hotel at the site of the old Guesthouse Inn and Suites, which was torn down in 2005.
“We bought this land a couple of years ago and we wanted to build a new hotel here, so we’re very excited that this is going to happen,” Nick Patel said Friday. Nick, who along with his uncle P.J. Patel, own Lake City’s Hampton Inn and Suites and Country Inn and Suites, along with two other hotels in Gainesville and Valdosta, Ga.
He said that Jim Dix from Dix Construction of Flagler Beach is the project manager and that work has already begun on the site. An official groundbreaking will take place on Feb. 22.
Nick Patel said the hotel will consist of 94 rooms — all suites. He said he hopes the hotel will be completed by January 2009.
“It’s definitely going to change the landscape of the area because we do not have any tall buildings like this at this exit,” he said.
Patel had previously mentioned the possibility of a conference center attached to the suites hotel but said that, if the addition was to be built, it would be after the hotel is finished.
“We would be very interested in building a conference center but not at this point,” he said.
He also noted he had received several calls about adding a restaurant to the hotel.
“We are not using the entire frontage but I believe a good
restaurant will only come once we build the hotel,” Patel said. “So we’ll see what happens once that is done.”
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