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Hampton Inn opens in Union Twp., Pa.
By MARY GRZEBIENIAK
NEW CASTLE, Pa.
A new, 74-room Hampton Inn is open for business on U.S. Route 224 in Union Township, just west of the Union Plaza.
The three-story hotel includes a theater-style meeting room that seats 75, as well as suites with new-style room dividers, a business center, swimming pool, whirlpool, exercise room, outdoor patio area and breakfast room.
Each room has a flat-screen television, microwave oven and refrigerator.
The owner, Castle Hospitality LLC, includes a group of investors, some of whom operate different-brand hotels in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.
Prominently featured on one wall of the breakfast room is a reproduced photograph of a 1928 steel mill on the Shenango River in New Castle.
Yogi Patel, a Pittsburgh businessman who is secretary of Castle Hospitality, said the picture was obtained from the Lawrence County Historical Society to provide a “local touch.”
Patel said 42 rooms were filled Wednesday at the hotel, which began accepting guests July 13. He said the hotel has 16 part-time employees, and he expects three or four more will be hired. The hotel is smoke- and pet-free.
Linda Farris, a planner for Union Township, said she expects the hotel’s proximity to the newly designated Interstate 376 to be a factor in attracting business.
A Microtel Inn also is being planned for U.S. Route 224 less than a mile east of the new Hampton Inn.