Awhile ago I wrote about where to stay in Cloverdale. Pretty much slim pickings.
However a new building going up on 64th Avenue, just west of 176th Street kept us guessing about what was going in there. Condos? Offices? Hotel? A few weeks ago the mystery was solved when a sign for Holiday Inn went up. And then we figured the race was on and that they'd be hoping to be open in time for the upcoming 2010 Olympics and catching out of town visitors.
A Google search shows it was supposed to open in November 2009. Not likely. It was still under exterior construction. Not to mention the sign only showed up about a month ago. The exterior looks pretty much done but no telling what's going on in the interior. Beds, linens, plumbing, flooring, etc. I've been on enough construction sites to know that if one trade gets behind, then they all get behind. And sometimes it gets behind enough that the trades have moved on to their next job = occupancy delays.
Even Holiday Inn's website doesn't say when its opening, but says its accepting reservations for after March 12, 2010. Whether or not that's the new opening date or whether they are fully booked for the Olympics, I don't know. I'll have to keep an eye on the parking lot next month and see if it is full of out of town vehicles or trucks belonging to the trades.
But with 76 rooms it looks like Cloverdale finally has a full service hotel. I bet this one will be solidly booked during the long weekend in May when the rodeo comes to town.
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