By Ian Thompson | DAILY REPUBLIC | December 26, 2008
The Hampton Inn & Suites hotel remains under construction on the Suisun City waterfront Friday afternoon. Photo by Brad Zweerink
SUISUN CITY - The builders of Suisun City's first hotel in decades are shooting to have the four-story building on Driftwood Drive and Lotz Way open for business this summer.
Having the Hampton Inn & Suites open in time for this year's Fourth of July fireworks is looking iffy and depends on this winter's weather.
'We are doing our darnedest to get it by then,' said Matt Sherrill, vice president of construction for Basin Street Properties of Petaluma.
Basin Street Properties is putting more than $13 million into the effort to build the 63,000-square-foot, 102-room hotel next to Driftwood Drive and Lotz Way.
Basin Street has been in business in Northern California for more than 30 years. It recently created a subsidiary, Basin Street Hospitality, which will include the hotel.
Basin Street is working with different major hotel chains to build a series of hotels near Basin Street office buildings and communities during the next five years.
Some projects include the Sheraton Sonoma County in Petaluma, the Holiday Inn Express in Corning and the Hampton Inn & Suites in Windsor.
In Suisun City's case, it is working with the Hilton hotel chain to put the hotel near the city's downtown waterfront redevelopment projects which are being built by Main Street West Partners.
'We are very excited to come to Suisun City,' said Tom Birdsall, managing partner for Basin Street Hospitality. 'It is a wonderful spot for a hotel, very unique for the area and we really like what we have seen with the whole redevelopment effort on the waterfront.'
Basin Street has ties to Main Street West Partners Inc., the developer picked by Suisun City to jump-start the waterfront's redevelopment. Main Street West co-founder Frank Marinello was previously vice president of Basin Street Properties.
Once completed this summer, the Hampton Inn and Suites will be the first hotel in Suisun City since the 1950s when the town's last hotel on Main Street burned to the ground.
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