Baltimore-area visitors have a new housing option during their stay following the opening of the SpringHill Suites of Columbia hotel. Part of the Marriott group of hotels, SpringHill Suits is located in Minstrel Crossing - a 9.1 acre mixed use development near the corner of Snowden River and Broken Land Parkway.
The suites-only hotel offers 117 spacious studio suites, a 600 square foot meeting facility, wireless internet access, a state-of-the-art gym, and a host of other amenities. It adds to the breadth of affordable high-end Howard County hotels available for both business and pleasure.
This is the 235th hotel to open since Marriott started the all suite select service hotel brand in 1999. Owned and operated by OTO Development, it is the third hotel in the country to feature the all new
SpringHill Suites interior design.
"OTO is thrilled to be a part of the community," says Johnetta Jordan, SpringHill Suites of Columbia's General Manager. "We have truly had a warm and friendly welcome from every person that we have come into contact with in the community."
All together, OTO Development will bring nearly 60 jobs to both the the 117-room SpringHill Suites hotel and a planned 124-room Hampton Inn Suites on 5.4 acres of the Minstrel Crossing properties.
On the remaining two lots developer H&H Rock "plans to build a 9,800 square foot one-story retail building which it will retain," said Bradd M. Caplan, Vice President of Commercial Development and Project Manager, H&H Rock Companies. "H&H Rock will develop the site for an Arby's restaurant which will be leased under a ground lease agreement."
Source: Howard County Economic Development Authority
Writer: Walaika Haskins