Construction of another new hotel in North Battleford is expected to begin soon.
Monday night, city council authorized administration to sell the remaining portion of Parcel E for $1 million between 114th Street and Territorial Drive, to a numbered company for the new hotel development there.
This is the last of the parcels on Parcel E between 114th Street and Territorial Drive, all of which have now been sold. A new strip mall was built recently to the south of where the hotel is going to go.
A Holiday Inn and Suites has been slated for development at the location. Now it appears that project is at the point where construction is ready to begin.
The other news from the council meeting is that the building permit for the project has already been issued. There were two permits issued for $11.330,550 reported in the new commercial category for May, and Director of Planning and Development Jennifer Niesink reported the bulk of that total was for the new hotel.
This would be the latest new hotel to go up in the southeast commercial area. A new Comfort Inn and Suites is in the final stages of construction north of Frontier Centre on Carlton Trail.
“It’s exciting, it’s great,” said Mayor Ryan Bater.
“That whole part of the city has been seeing a lot of development. Of course there is a hotel about to open already.”
Bater also pointed to the necessity of having a master plan for that part of the city, because of the amount of traffic that will be generated.
