The facility will be located on 6.5 acres leased from theGreater Orlando Airport Authority and will feature 292 guest rooms,a 4,000-sf assembly room, a 1,000-sf fitness center, two quietstudy rooms, four meeting rooms, an e-library and a great room.Outdoor amenities will include a pool, sports court and outdoorkitchen facilities. It is expected to be completed in 14 to 18months. The facility will be constructed and operated in a fashionsimilar to extended-stay hotel, Tishman project executive JimDurkin tells GlobeSt.com.

The developer of the project is Houston-based Isis Investments,the design architect is Houston-based Mitchell, Carlson, Stone,Inc. and the owner's representative is New York-based TishmanConstruction Corp. The lodge is being constructed by Tulsa,OK-based Manhattan Construction. It will be operated byIntercontinental Hotels Group.

The Crew Lodge will join other recently completed supportfacilities built as part of JetBlue University. They include asupport campus that offers training for flight operations, flightattendant, technical operations and customer service crewmembersthat was completed about a year ago. It also includes a LiveTVthree-bay hangar, which opened in April 2005. LiveTV is the whollyowned subsidiary that provides inflight satellite televisionsystems on aircrafts. "This is a fairly unique project for anairline," Durkin says.