HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977 10-26 Holiday Inn comes to Maplewood THE REVIEW Holiday Inn
comes to Maplewood
by Anne Skinner week with occupancy next July. Initially,
-- the motel will house 120 rooms plus a
The Maplewood City Council recently restaurant, meeting room and enclosed
approved plans for a new Holiday Inn to swimming pool. Expansion plans include
be located northwest of Maplewood Mall an additional 60 rooms.The rooms will be
between County Road D and Beam constructed in two stories, with the ad-
Avenue. joining restaurant, meeting room and
The motel, about two years in the pool, single story.
planning stages, will be built and Olson indicated the decorating theme is
operated by Dot-Winslow Properties of nautical with a facsimile of a ship con-
Anoka. The independent franchisee also structed in front of the motel. The ship's
operates Holiday Inns in Anoka, hull would likely be used as a planter, he
Owatonna and Worthington. added.
According to Don Olson, of Dot- The motel will be built "into the site"
Winslow, the firm selected the site based with extensive earth burming, similar to
on a market survey which indicated the the Maplewood Mall. Johnson-Nordblom
northeast Twin City area "had a hole in of Wayzata designed the building.
the hotel market." Olson noted the According to Olson, the inn hopes to
southern boundries had been saturated serve the entire North St. Paul-White
with hotels. Bear-Maplewood area,including business
Construction is expected to begin this travellers and shoppers.