A Bellevue-based developer is exploring whether to build a four-story, 122-room hotel near the East Mill Plain Boulevard-Interstate 205 interchange.
The proposed Woodspring Suites Vancouver at 188-260 N.E. 104th Ave. would be about a mile east of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center.
The 1.83-acre site on the north side of Mill Plain is vacant and located near the Maple Ridge Apartments and Garden View Apartments.
The hotel developer, West 77 Partners of Bellevue, has opened three Woodspring Suites hotels in Washington with the goal of opening three more in the state, including the Vancouver site, project coordinator Kerri Findlay said. The developer has filed a pre-application with the city of Vancouver, one of the first steps in a building project.
Rooms in the proposed Vancouver site are designed for extended stays with in-room kitchenettes, on-site laundry and exercise facilities.
Given those characteristics, the developer believes the hotel would distinguish itself from the short-stay hotels that have recently opened, are under construction or have been proposed in Vancouver or near the city, Findlay said.
Nevertheless, the developer is conducting a due diligence feasibility study for the project, she said, to help determine whether to forge ahead with the project.
Recent openings include the 132-room Best Western Premier Hotel at Fisher’s Landing, 1500 S.E. 167th Ave., Vancouver, and the 82-room Holiday Inn Express & Suites, 1805 S.E. 192nd Ave. in Camas. And Residence Inn Portland Vancouver, at 411 S.E. 123rd Ave. in Vancouver, with 90 rooms, is expected to open soon. At The Waterfront Vancouver, construction is underway on the 120-room Hotel Indigo, which is expected to open in 2020.
Those four projects add 442 rooms to the 2,104 that were in Vancouver last year. Meanwhile, there are nine proposed hotel projects in addition to the Woodspring Suites Vancouver that would add another 877 rooms if they are built.
