Comfort Suites going up in Cordelia Ranch

July 24, 2004

Comfort Suites going up in Cordelia Ranch

By Matthew Bunk

FAIRFIELD -- A hotel going up on Pittman Road in Green Valley will be one of the first structures at the Cordelia Ranch Commercial Center, a 10-building development plotted to someday include nine other businesses.

The mostly-undeveloped Cordelia Ranch covers the entire block surrounded by Pittman Road and Central Avenue.

The hotel, a Comfort Suites, will hold 67 guest rooms, a meeting room and a breakfast area. It also will have an exercise area and an outdoor pool and spa.

The hotel property will include 11,000 square feet of landscaping, with evergreens, Siberian elms and purple leaf plum trees, and enough parking for 68 cars. The hotel building will be 40,000 square feet.

A gazebo will greet guests at the main hotel entrance, which will be designed with colored and textured concrete on the ground under an overhanging facade. The building's exterior will be stucco and wood trim.

The hotel is expected to be the largest building in Cordelia Ranch. Two retail shops to the west will have a combined 24,000 square feet of operating space. A convenience store, two fast-food establishments, three restaurants and an office will take up smaller spaces along Central Avenue north of the hotel property.

The office building will be 9,500 square feet, and two of the restaurants will be more than 5,000 square feet.

Comfort Suites is part of Choice Hotels International, a chain of eight hotel brands that include Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Sleep Inn, Clarion, MainStay Suites, Econo Lodge and Rodeway Inn. It's a public company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CHH.

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Comfort Suites

Address: 315 Pittman Road

Cost: $3.5 million

Owner: Sam Patel