Expected to open in spring of 2002, it will be first AmeriSuiteshotel to go up here. The limited-service hotel chain, which servesbusiness travelers and families, charged an average daily room rateof $82 in 1999. Currently, it has about 130 properties around thecountry and franchise agreements to open approximately 60 more.
"Washington DC is a very important national market with lots ofbusiness travelers," says Phil Harvey, director of franchiseservices and contracting for Prime Hospitality, the chain'sfranchiser.
Prime Hospitality is also drafting plans to build an 80-unithotel in Largo, MD and a 128-unit hotel in Sterling, VA. Dates forthese projects have not been set.
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