Type: Hotel

Rooms: 205 (total)

Developer: TPI Hospitality

Architect: Cities Edge Architects

Details: A pair of new hotels is proposed for a vacant parcel next to a recently built Metro Transit Park & Ride ramp in Roseville's Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area. Willmar-based TPI Hospitality submitted plans for a five-story, 100-unit Hampton Inn and a four-story, 105-unit Hilton Home 2 Suites on the 3.72-acre lot, which surrounds the 460-vehicle I-35W & County Road C Park & Ride on two sides.

The lot housed the Old Dominion trucking company and terminal until 2007. Its northeastern corner was redeveloped into the Park & Ride in 2009 and the rest of the property was acquired by a TPI subsidiary from Old Dominion in May for $1.75 million, according to Ramsey County records.

The preliminary plans submitted by Cities Edge Architects show the proposed Hampton Inn aligned just west of the Park & Ride along Iona Lane, while the Hilton Home 2 Suites would be situated south of the ramp along Mount Ridge Road. The two hotels would be accessed from both streets as well as from Cleveland Avenue.

Exterior building materials would include cement fiber board siding, four types of stucco and brick.

TPI operates more than 40 hotel, restaurant and convention center locations. CEO Tom Torgerson said in a company newsletter that construction on the Roseville Home 2 Suites was expected to begin in spring 2015 with completion a year later, followed by a spring 2016 start on the Roseville Hampton Inn.

Don Jacobson is a St. Paul-based freelance writer. He can be contacted at hotproperty.startribune@gmail.com.