The 106-room SpringHill Suites hotel taking shape on Old Lee Highway in Ooltewah is scheduled to open in October.Project at a glance
* Location: 8876 Old Lee Highway, Ooltewah* Developer: Knoxville-based Gibson Hotel Management (GHM)* Investment: $15 million* Size: 106 hotel suites, plus a restaurant, bar, swimming pool and fitness center* General contractor: D&S Builders of Sevierville, Tenn.* General manager: Bill Mish* Schedule: Open by October
The 106-room SpringHill Suites hotel taking shape on Old Lee Highway in Ooltewah is scheduled to open in October.Five years after a SpringHill Suites opened on Chattanooga’s downtown waterfront, another $15 million SpringHill Suites is preparing to open near Interstate 75 in Collegedale.
A Knoxville development that already owns and operates about 30 hotels in four Southeastern states is scheduled to open the first of at least a couple of hotels it plans for Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tenn. Gibson Hotel Management (GHM) is building the 106-room hotel on Old Lee Highway at the Ooltewah exit off I-75.
The five-story, all-suites inn will include a restaurant, bar, meeting rooms, swimming pool and fitness center and will be designed to cater to both business and leisure travelers.
“This area is booming right now around Volkswagen, McKee Foods, Amazon and other businesses, and we see a lot of growth in this market that we hope to serve,” Joe Grieco, vice president of operations for GHM, said Monday. “The benefit of an all-suites hotel like this SpringHill Suites is that it serves a lot of business needs during the week and can also tap into the leisure market on the weekend.”