SILVER SPRING, MD HOTEL BUSINESS. has learned that Choice Hotels International plans to construct a signature hotel here near its corporate headquarters, primarily to serve attendees at its state-of-the-art training center.
We bring in about 100 people a week and we have to send them five miles away to stay, said Paul Sterbini, vp/franchise sales at Choice. We want to be able to send them across the street [to a property]on a climate-controlled pedestrian bridge that we re building.
Sterbini noted that Choice made a major investment to stay in local Montgomery County and the local politicians are backing the endeavor to build the hotel. He did not state which brand or how many rooms would be put in place. (1/04/01) Stefani C. O Connor