Holiday Inn Hopes To Build At Mission-Mullan Location

Holiday Inn wants to build a 142-unit hotel at Mission Avenue and Mullan Road. County records show the company hopes to build a Holiday Inn Express location and a restaurant at 9220 E. Mission.

Holiday Inn does not yet own the land, but has an option to purchase it.

“We haven’t closed on the land, and we’re not going to close unless we can build,” said Cal Clausen, general manager of the Holiday Inn Express on North Division.

The area is already zoned for commercial development. Still, county approval for the project depends largely on the results of a traffic impact study currently being done. The county requires that roads servicing a development be able to support the increased traffic load the project would draw.

If not, the county can deny approval or require the developer to pay for access improvements themselves.

Clausen said sewer lines would also have to be installed before the hotel could be built.

Tradition House to move

Sometimes, planning too far ahead can backfire.

That’s what happened to Tradition House, a longtime furniture retailer at 8200 E. Sprague. The business has been there for more than 40 years. It was supposed to move to 5511 E. Third this fall, but the paperwork didn’t get done and the move will be delayed until February.

Big deal? It is if bedraggled consumers drive around aimlessly in search of a furniture store that isn’t.

Since they thought they were moving, store owners had the planned East Third address and telephone number listed in the new US West directory. People looking up a furniture dealer in the directory won’t even see the name Tradition House listed - the new store will simply be called Ethan Allen.

“A lot of people have called already and said, ‘Where are you?”’ said Donna Preston, an interior designer with the store.

Anyone trying to track down the local Ethan Allen dealer should go to the Tradition House store on East Sprague, she said.

Cabinet crafters make good

Good Buddies Cabinets has operated out of Jack Holmes’s residential shop for about a year.

The space he and partner Eric Woollett use to manufacture cabinets at 3037 S. McDonald Road is too small, though. Their business grew so fast, they are already moving to a new commercial site at 2928 E. Boone.

“We’re too big for my shop,” Holmes said.

So big, he said, the business spilled out of the shop and onto the lawn.

“We do a lot of work in my yard now.”

Good Buddies does both residential and commercial cabinet construction, installation and re-laminate work. The business’s move should be complete by the end of this month.

, DataTimes