New hotel planned for bustling West Columbia hospital corridor | Columbia Business

WEST COLUMBIA — Approximately 200 new hotel rooms are prepared for a bustling strip of West Columbia’s Sunset Boulevard that has been a hotspot of enhancement the last few years.

Florence-based mostly Naman Lodges designs to build a pair of Hilton-branded hotels with a total of 194 rooms on land at the corner of Pine Lake Travel, just west of Lexington Health care Center’s most important hospital campus, CEO Ashok Patel claimed.

Patel stated his corporation is finishing style and design and lining up contractors to crack floor at the conclusion of 2022 or early 2023. Development is anticipated to get a 12 months and 50 percent. Patel did not share how considerably his enterprise would be investing in the venture as charge estimates are nonetheless being finalized.

One of the resorts will be an prolonged-continue to be assets, Patel stated. There will be assembly rooms and an out of doors pool. Collectively the houses will employ about 50 men and women.

The location near the Lexington clinic has seen a spate of accommodations in recent decades.

In August 2017, Solara Hospitality CEO Clancy Cipkala opened a Home Inn throughout the road from Lexington Health-related Heart, followed by a TownePlace Suites in 2021.

Naman Inns also operates a Hilton Yard Inn in the place, which Patel mentioned boasts simple access for vacationers on Interstate 26.

Outdoors of the hospitality sector, other builders are organizing for a 312-unit, superior-close condominium elaborate in the spot, just west of Naman’s property on 54 acres owned by the Buff family.

Ben Kelly, a professional actual-estate broker with NAI Columbia who is handling the offer, claimed he anticipates the improvement will get underway in the slide. Retail, like a grocery store and pharmacy, could appear to the web site at a later day.

And Lexington Medical Middle alone has been joining in on the area’s buildout.

The hospital, in partnership with the University of South Carolina, is constructing a $20 million teaching centre for nursing learners, as nicely as a independent center for graduate medical education, entire with educational space and clinics.

Naman Resorts, which operates motels throughout the Carolinas, owns a overall of five qualities in the Columbia spot, including Staybridge Suites on Columbia’s Huger Street.

The organization also is in the course of action of building a Hilton-branded hotel in Columbia’s Vista entertainment district, a couple blocks from the Congaree River, which has drawn some opposition from nearby rental proprietors.