Plans are underway for the construction of a new 105-room hotel in the Oro Valley, just under 20 miles to the north of Tucson.
The four-story hotel will be branded as a Hampton Inn and Suites and will go up on a currently vacant 2.8-acre site near the northwest corner of Oracle Road and Water Harvest Drive in the shopping and entertainment district known as the Oro Valley Marketplace.
Opened in 2008, that marketplace includes restaurants, a furniture store, bank, and variety of department stores, among other offerings.
According to city documents, the hotel will measure around 59,500 square feet and will “incorporate tilted flag-shaped accents to reference architectural elements consistently used throughout the Oro Valley Marketplace.”
Project designer is the Tucson-based Eglin+Bresler Architects.
A conceptual site and landscape plans for the project were approved last November by the Oro Valley Town Council. The architectural plans for the project are now under review before the Oro Valley Planning and Zoning Commission.
Launched in 1984, Hampton Inn and Suites, with headquarters in Memphis, is trademarked by Hilton Worldwide and has over 2,600 locations globally. It caters to an upper midscale clientele.
By Garry Boulard
