HEI Hotels SVP Russell Urban tells GlobeSt.com he is navigatingthe city's approval process right now but does not expect anyhiccups because the site is entitled for what it wants to do."[Bellevue] is one of the fastest growing commercial centers in thecountry right now and we felt it has a real need for morefull-service hotel rooms," he says.

The hotel will be its first in the Pacific Northwest but not thelast. "We are looking at several other acquisition and developmentopportunities in the Pacific Northwest," he says. "We certainlylike the market and would like to be represented there a little bitmore."

The new hotel would include 13,000 sf of meeting space as wellas a restaurant, fitness facility, indoor pool and parking garage.The hotel is expected to open in 2010. It would be the onlyfull-service Marriott in the city.

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