EVERETT – A Wisconsin development company has applied for permits to build a four-story hotel at Paine Field that hopes to serve visitors to the airport’s new flight museum.
The proposed $7-million Hilton Garden Inn will include more than 100 guest rooms, restaurant and banquet facility at 8401 Paine Field Blvd., on the northwest side of the airport.
It would be the fourth hotel offering restaurant and meeting facilities in Snohomish County.
While the permit applications have been filed, a lease agreement between the county and the hotel’s developer still needs to be finalized by the County Council, said Thomas Arnot, partner in Beechwood Development LLC of DePere, Wisc.
The hotel’s preliminary plans call for between 102 and 104 rooms, including several executive suites, an indoor pool and facilities to handle conferences and other meetings.
Arnot and Paine Field officials declined to comment more on the hotel’s specifics until the lease is signed.
If the project progresses on schedule, the hotel would open about a month before the new $21.7-million National Flight Interpretive Center at Paine Field. That center also will include a new Boeing Tour Center to serve the tens of thousands of people who visit the company’s Everett assembly plant each year.
The Boeing Co. tour already attracts about 100,000 visitors a year, making it the county’s single largest tourist attraction. That number is expected to more than double, however, the first year the new flight center is open.
The hotel’s location next to the flight center and close to Boeing Everett plant and the Seaway Center industrial park is expected to attract a mix of tourists and business travelers.
Beechwood Development won Hilton Hotel Corp.’s outstanding merit award in 2001 for the Hilton Garden Inn brand.
The company also has a track record in developing hotels in conjunction with publicly owned facilities. It recently constructed an inn on the University of North Dakota campus in Grand Forks, N.D. and is developing hotels adjacent to Veteran’s Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Miss.
Reporter Eric Fetters: 425-339-3453 or fetters@heraldnet.com.
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