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The new suite design has been installed in three different iterations at the new 58-room Microtel Inn & Suites hotel in Albertville, AL, owned and operated by Don Spurlin of Albertville Hospitality, LLC. They include:
1. The prototype suite design that all new Microtel hotels will offer.
2. A retrofit option for hotels to totally upgrade the look of their existing suites.
3. A refresh option for hotels to undergo a suite facelift utilizing existing casegoods.
Microtel locations under construction that will offer the new suite design include: Birmingham/Hoover, AL; Brooksville, Jacksonville/Airport and Lehigh Acres, FL; Canton, Perry and Woodstock, GA; York, ME; Bath, Johnstown and Verona, NY; Delphois, OH; Stillwater, OK; Klamath Falls, OR, and Richfield, UT. Microtel locations expected to ground break by Dec. 31, 2007 that will offer the new suite design include: Saraland, AL; Conway, AR; Cussetta and Macon, GA; Greenville, NC; Kearney, NE; Manchester, TN; Port Arthur, TX, and Princeton, WV.
Microtel’s new suite design was created as an outgrowth of a competition that Microtel sponsored with the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta, GA (SCAD) earlier this year. Graduate interior design students competed to produce a Microtel suite guestroom redesign and the three finalists’ concepts went from design to actually being installed in three suites at a Microtel Inn & Suites hotel in Atlanta. Under the direction of Microtel Design Specialist Bijal Patel, a recent SCAD graduate and one of the finalists, as well as input from Microtel franchisees and guests, various aspects of all three suite designs have been incorporated to produce the new Microtel prototype.
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