Two New Hotels... South Tulsa

[dsjeffries]

quote:Bell Hospitality to Build 50 Hotels, Two in Tulsa
Tulsa Business Staff
2/6/2008

Bell Hospitality Group LLC of Oklahoma City has announced the execution of a development agreement under which the company will build 50 MainStay Suites and Suburban Extended Stay brand hotels, all of which are scheduled to be under development by October 31, 2009.

The company also announced that they have simultaneously executed the first nine franchise agreements under this contract for MainStay Suites hotels in Tulsa (two); Kansas City; Oklahoma City; and Colorado Springs and Suburban Extended Stay Hotels in four Louisiana markets - New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Lake Charles.

According to Garland Bell, president of Bell Hospitality, the company plans aggressive expansion, not just in the Tulsa market, but in all of Oklahoma.

"We have 2 hotels planned at this point in Tulsa, the first at 7000 Riverside," Bell said. "The second we are finalizing contracts on and will be on 91st Street."

Bell could not release further information on the precise location of the 91st Street hotel and said a similar situation exists on an Owasso location.

"We are also finalizing plans on a site in Owasso."

Bell Hospitality also plans to break ground on five Oklahoma City locations in the next three months.

"We have a hotel that will start construction in March at Memorial and Lake Hefner Parkway, and 3 others to follow," he said. "Finally, we will break ground in the next 90 days on a location in Lawton."

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quote:Originally posted by DScott28604

quote:Bell Hospitality to Build 50 Hotels, Two in Tulsa
Tulsa Business Staff
2/6/2008

Bell Hospitality Group LLC of Oklahoma City has announced the execution of a development agreement under which the company will build 50 MainStay Suites and Suburban Extended Stay brand hotels, all of which are scheduled to be under development by October 31, 2009.

The company also announced that they have simultaneously executed the first nine franchise agreements under this contract for MainStay Suites hotels in Tulsa (two); Kansas City; Oklahoma City; and Colorado Springs and Suburban Extended Stay Hotels in four Louisiana markets - New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Lake Charles.

According to Garland Bell, president of Bell Hospitality, the company plans aggressive expansion, not just in the Tulsa market, but in all of Oklahoma.

"We have 2 hotels planned at this point in Tulsa, the first at 7000 Riverside," Bell said. "The second we are finalizing contracts on and will be on 91st Street."

Bell could not release further information on the precise location of the 91st Street hotel and said a similar situation exists on an Owasso location.

"We are also finalizing plans on a site in Owasso."

Bell Hospitality also plans to break ground on five Oklahoma City locations in the next three months.

"We have a hotel that will start construction in March at Memorial and Lake Hefner Parkway, and 3 others to follow," he said. "Finally, we will break ground in the next 90 days on a location in Lawton."

Wow. Looks like the money thinks Jenks will succeed with their growth plans.

[sgrizzle]

Neither is exciting, but I hope we get the first one over the second. Too bad it couldn't be a nice hotel.

Mainstay Suites:


Suburban Extended Stay:

[dsjeffries]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

Neither is exciting, but I hope we get the first one over the second. Too bad it couldn't be a nice hotel.

Mainstay Suites:


Suburban Extended Stay:

The article said that the hotels would be the first one (Mainstay).  Towns in Louisiana are getting the second one (Suburban Extended Stay).

[cannon_fodder]

Every hotel announcement in South Tulsa lessons the chance of a new hotel going in near the convention center or somewhere in midtown.  

Odds of the old city hall building standing empty for more than a year?  I'd put them at 80%.

[inteller]

7000 Riverside?  Isn't that the plot of land bumgarner was going to put a hilton or some such on?  Talk about a 180.

[YoungTulsan]

That Suburban Extended Stay looks like an apartment complex they slapped a sign on the side of.

[tulsa1603]

quote:Originally posted by YoungTulsan

That Suburban Extended Stay looks like an apartment complex they slapped a sign on the side of.

It looks like a parody of a cheap hotel - the kind of thing you'd see opening a Saturday Night Live sketch.  And that it's called "Suburban" is even more comical.  I hate to see that kind of stuff coming to that plot of land....

[Composer]

Oh that Suburban Extended Stay hotel is UGLY!

[inteller]

it reminds me of the whore-tels off Admiral.

[safetyguy]

My in-laws stayed in one of those Extended Stay hotels last summer in OKC because a relative was in the hospital. That was an experience in itself. They are so cheap that people end of living there on a full time basis. I remember that they could only check in during the week, but the "maintenance person/manager lived at the complex and god was he shady as well as the guys coming off the elevator reecking of weed...

[sgrizzle]

I stated at an extended stay once and it was horrific. A hotel I have used several times was a baymont inn that got rebranded as an extended stay and I have refused to stay their since.

The other chain (which Tulsa is getting) sounds a bit better. But I think that overall, choice hotels is just too big to really care.

[Townsend]

Property purchased.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectID=32&articleID=20080221_5_E1_hAroo71440

Are there any security concerns in this location?  Seems like a fencing company moist sleep rumination.

[inteller]

hahaha....so much for that high class Hilton that everyone was hoping for....or even the lifestyle center that was proposed.  Once again, someone has a failure to execute vision.  Now we are getting a Mainstay Suites Whoretel.

They deferred something related to this last night at the TMAPC meeting.

[TheArtist]

quote:Originally posted by inteller

hahaha....so much for that high class Hilton that everyone was hoping for....or even the lifestyle center that was proposed.  Once again, someone has a failure to execute vision.  Now we are getting a Mainstay Suites Whoretel.

They deferred something related to this last night at the TMAPC meeting.

Failure to execute vision? This doesnt even seem to be the same developer? Why would it be the responsibility of a new developer to "execute the vision" of the old one?