The site on Clairemont Avenue next to Decatur’s Courtyard Marriott has been cleared in the past week and awaits construction of a new Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton. There is still no word from Chattanooga-based Vision Hospitality about when work will begin.
In May 2016, Vision announced the hotel would open this spring.
Decatur Assistant City Manager Lyn Menne said she’s uncertain about what’s caused the delay. But she said that Vision does have a site disturbance permit and 17 trees were moved to nearby Glenlake Park.
The six-story, 87,000-square foot Hampton will have 145 rooms according to the latest information. Vision Hospitality owns and manages 32 hotels in five states including two in Kennesaw, with one under construction in downtown Atlanta across from the Georgia Aquarium.
This will be Decatur’s first new hotel since construction of the Holiday Inn (now the 180-room Marriott) in the late 1980s. The additional hotel, according to Menne, allows the city to host large regional conferences that it couldn’t handle with only one major hotel.
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