GLENDALE, AZ— The developer of Westgate City Center said that up to three more hotels totaling up to 450 rooms will be built at the Glendale, AZ, shopping and entertainment complex. The Ellman Cos. of Phoenix has sold a nine-acre parcel at the site just west of Jobing.com Arena and the Marriott Renaissance hotel project to the North Central Group, a Wisconsin-based hotel developer, owner and operator. The groups first hotel, a 149-room Hampton Inn & Suites, broke ground this month and will be completed in December. Other hotels at Westgate will be developed over the next several years. The Hampton Inn would bring to six the number of hotels around University of Phoenix Stadium that are expected to be open for the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and Super Bowl XLII in early 2008. Construction is under way on two Marriott-brand hotels— a 126-room Residence Inn and 120-room SpringHill Suites— at the heart of the adjacent Zanjero project. The projects are set to open in October. Two more hotels, a 96-room Holiday Inn Express and 116-room Staybridge Suites, are undergoing grading just south of the Marriott projects. They are expected to open by December. Another 200-room hotel is in the works at the nearby Districts at Zanjero urban village.
