Hammons unveils plans for Tennessee project

The 283-suite hotel and 80,000-square-foot conference center will be managed by Springfield-based John Q. Hammons Hotels & Resorts LLC. Completion of the development is scheduled for spring 2008.

Hotel amenities include an open garden atrium with water trails, an Internet café, 24-hour room service, same-day dry cleaning, daily cooked-to-order breakfast, a fitness center, an indoor pool and a sundeck.

Each hotel suite will have a private bedroom, living room, two televisions, refrigerator, wet bar, microwave oven, two telephones with data ports, high-speed Internet access, work desk and in-room safe. Select rooms also will have private covered balconies.

The development will be located near major highways and a planned outdoor shopping center, which will feature 1 million square feet of restaurants, home furnishings stores and clothing shops. The shopping center, a joint venture between Faison & Associates and Cousins Properties, is scheduled to open in August 2007.

The Murfreesboro property will be the second full-service hotel and first conference center Hammons has built in Tennessee. He operates an Embassy Suites Hotel in Nashville.