A new Home2 Suites is planned for Sarasota, Fla.
The 109-room property will be located near both Sarasota-Bradenton international Airport and the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus. The planned all-suite hotel will be located on 2.5 acres of land tract zoned for commercial use. The owner, Excel Sarasota 1, bought the land in November 2013 for $200,000.
The hotel will be located near an existing Hilton-branded hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn Sarasota-Bradenton Airport.
Sarasota County reportedly had more than 1 million lodgers in a single year for the first time in 2015, though the area has only 5,166 rooms at motels and hotels. Neighboring Manatee County has 6,200. Three other hotels are under construction in downtown Sarasota roughly four miles south of the planned Home2 Suites. The 139-room Aloft Sarasota by Starwood opened this year in the town as well.