Proposed hotels would add 243 rooms to Tinley stock
Two planned Marriotts would be near I-80 and LaGrange Road
Tinley Park would get a little roomier under plans for two Marriott hotels near the interchange of Interstate 80 and LaGrange Road.
Tinley Park planners Thursday reviewed proposals for a 125room Courtyard hotel and adjacent 118-room Residence Inn, Marriott’s brand that is marketed toward extended stay guests.
Both would have amenities such as indoor pools and lounge, and the Courtyard would have a 5,000-square-foot banquet facility.
They would be built on a 9-acre site just south of 183rd Street on the east side of White Eagle Drive, at a total cost of about $33 million.
The pair of hotels would be north of the Country Inn & Suites and Hilton Garden Inn hotels.
Tinley Park now boasts 10 hotels that combined have more than 1,100 rooms, with most clustered near the interchange of I-80 and Harlem Avenue.
The two Marriott hotels and a Holiday Inn planned for the village would bring Tinley Park’s inventory of hotel rooms to about 1,500.
Approved last year, the 108room Holiday Inn is to be built at 18320 North Creek Drive, just south of the Hamada of Japan restaurant, in the North Creek Business Park.
The plans include an indoor pool, dining area, fitness center and lounge, at a cost of about $14.5 million to build, according to the village.
Tinley Park now has a larger 202-room Holiday Inn off I-80 and Harlem, attached to the village’s convention center. The Harp Group, which acquired the property in 2018, is in the process of a multimillion dollar renovation and rebranding of the hotel.
The conversion will turn it into a health and fitness oriented brand called EVEN, which is part of InterContinental Hotels Group, operators of the Holiday Inn brand. The hotel will have an expanded fitness center and each guest room will have fitness equipment such as an exercise ball and yoga mat.
The hotel development helps bring in additional revenue due to Tinley Park’s tax on hotel room rentals.
For this fiscal year, which ends April 30, the village estimates the tax will generate a bit more than $1.7 million compared with about $1.6 million for fiscal year 2019.
The rate was increased from 6% to 7% in January 2019, with much of the revenue generated being used to support village marketing efforts.
The two new Marriott properties were reviewed at a Plan Commission workshop, with a public hearing and vote on the proposal tentatively scheduled for the commission’s March meeting. Any recommendation would then go to the Village Board for a vote.