The Surprise Planning and Zoning Commission gave its approval for the Marriott Springhill Suites at Surprise Center project near Civic Center Drive and Bell Road.
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The addition of a fourth hotel in Surprise’s City Center is another step closer.
The Surprise Planning and Zoning Commission gave its approval June 18 for the Marriott Springhill Suites at Surprise Center project near Civic Center Drive and Bell Road.
The four-story hotel, which would be the second Marriott-branded hotel in the area, would include 110 rooms, a pool, onsite parking for 90 vehicles as well as 12 spaces along Elm Street.
The Surprise City Council still has to give its stamp on the project, but that won’t happen until late August at the earliest since the Council doesn’t meet again until after it’s Aug. 4 primary election.
City planner Hobart Wingard said a tree-lined, widened pedestrian sidewalk is planned along Elm Street.
“We trying to create that downtown feel,” Mr. Wingard said.
The hotel would be the last piece to the eight-acre Civic Center Commercial Center, planned to go next to the tire shop that’s nearly completed behind In-N-Out Burger, 14321 W. Bell Road.
The commercial center also includes Raising Cane’s, 14385 W. Bell Road; Starbucks, 14369 W. Bell Road; and restaurants such as Pieology, 14345 W. Bell Road.
The nearly 65,000-square-foot hotel would be one-quarter of the Commercial Center and become the second Marriott-branded hotel in the City Center.
Residence Inn by Marriott Phoenix NW/Surprise is at 16418 N. Bullard Ave., north of Surprise Stadium.
Mr. Wingard said red push pistache trees are planned along Elm Street.
P&Z Chair Matthew Keating said he sat in on with the ownership group Thompson Thrift to redevelop and revise the master plan.
“Shade and particular types of trees along the streets was a really big deal when they were revising that plan,” Mr. Keating said. “It was the right type of trees and plenty of them.”
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