WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) -- In the shadow of the InterLink building housing a parking garage, commuter train station, and rental car vendors for T.F. Green Airport, the new location of Hyatt Place - the legacy hotel chain's brand of extended-stay lodging - held a ribbon-cutting Wednesday morning.
Mayor Joseph Solomon, Gov. Gina Raimondo and other local dignitaries celebrated the 125-room hotel's opening, which is just over a year in the works after breaking ground back in April 2017. The Hyatt Place replaced a vacant asphalt and concrete plant. The business is expected to employ 40 people full-time.
Not just adjacent to the amenities of the Interlink, the hotel is also placed in the middle of City Centre Warwick, a neighborhood being developed around the transit hub. The city is working to attract employers, restaurants and retailers to the area.
The Hyatt Place is Warwick's seventeenth hotel, and around the airport it joins a Holiday Inn Express, a Hilton Garden Inn, a Hampton Inn, a Best Western, a Radisson hotel, and a Sheraton. Before stepping down, former Mayor Scott Avedisian had praised the development of the Hyatt Place, noting that more hotel rooms were needed. In the summer of 2016, the city's hotel occupancy rate was 96 percent on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, he said.
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