Hospitality

GRANGER, IND. — Hampton Hotels has broken ground on the 99-room Hampton Inn & Suites Mishawaka in Granger, located about 10 miles northeast of South Bend. Each guest room at the four-story hotel will feature high-speed Internet, refrigerator, microwave, hair dryer, iron and ironing board, 42-inch LCD television and Serta Suite Dreams beds. The hotel will also include a two-story lobby, business center, indoor swimming pool, a 675-square-foot fitness center and 500 square feet of meeting room space. The development is a joint venture between Holladay Properties, the owners of the Hilton Garden Inn South Bend/Gillespie Conference Center, and Gateway Hospitality Group, which will oversee construction. The hotel will be located at 7347 Heritage Square Drive and is slated for a fall 2014 completion.

PLYMOUTH, MINN. — Marcus & Millichap has arranged the $2.2 million sale of the Days Inn Plymouth West/Minneapolis, a 113-room hospitality property located in Plymouth, a western suburb of Minneapolis. Jon Ruzicka, a hospitality investment specialist, and Gordon Allred, vice president of investments at Marcus & Millichap, represented the seller, a private fund, and the buyer, a limited liability company. The four-story property is located near the intersection of Interstate 494 and Highway 55 at 2955 Empire Lane. The buyer plans to renovate the property.

ROSEMONT, ILL. — The 525-room Westin O’Hare will undergo a $22 million renovation that will include transforming the lobby lounge into a Starbucks Coffee café. The project will also upgrade 50,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space with new carpeting, wall vinyl, lighting fixtures, artwork, audio/video services and both wired and wireless Internet connectivity. The Gettys Group, a Chicago-based hotel consulting and design firm, will begin construction of the Starbucks this month, followed by a complete redesign of the front desk and lobby areas and construction of a 3,800-square-foot ballroom. The project is slated for a completion in March 2014. The project comes on the heels of a multi-million dollar renovation completed this past March, which included upgrading all of the guest rooms and meeting space.