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Hotel construction to begin at KineticPark next week
HUNTINGTON -- Construction is expected to start next week on an extended-stay hotel at KineticPark.
The three-story TownePlace Suites, a branch of Marriott hotels, will serve guests visiting for extended stays of a week or more. Located on the 2.55-acre lot just north of Bob Evans restaurant, the hotel will have 87 suites featuring full kitchens, flat screen TVs and free, high-speed, wireless Internet service. The hotel also will have a pool, exercise room, guest laundry room and light continental breakfast.
City officials had a groundbreaking ceremony for the hotel in early May, but there have been several construction delays since then, said Bill Toney, executive director of the Huntington Municipal Authority.
"The hotel developers had to change some stuff in their plans at Marriott's request. Dealing with them is kind of slow," Toney said. "They finally got the plans approved, and the latest I've heard is that construction will start the last week of August."
KineticPark is a proposed business and technology park located along Hal Greer Boulevard near Interstate 64.
So far, the park has a Bob Evans on its lower level and professional offices on its upper level, but no technology-based businesses as of yet.
