Stratford Suites Inn LLC, of Airway Heights, is developing a new extended-stay lodging facility there at an estimated cost of $6 million, and plans to complete the project by next April.


The lodging facility will include 15 four-unit structures, each with 2,600 square feet of floor space, and a 2,500-square-foot, one-story service building, says Ken Kalin, who co-owns Stratford Suites Inn LLC with fellow local businessman Jack Grady. Construction is under way on the motel, which will be called Stratford Suites Inn and will be located on a roughly 2.5-acre site at 11808 W. Center Lane, he says.


Each guest unit in those four-unit structures will have 650 square feet of floor space, Kalin says. The units will have either two bedrooms or one bedroom and an office, he says. They will have 9-foot-high ceilings, kitchens, leather furniture, big-screen TVs, and Wireless-Fidelity high-speed Internet access, he says. The units will be priced at about $75 for a daily stay, and weekly and monthly rates also will be offered.


We wanted to try an upscale project of corporate suites that will give the traveling person more of a home feeling, Kalin says. The ground floor access will allow them to walk right into their own unit on the main floor without any elevators.


The service building will include an exercise room, administrative office, and free laundry services, he says. The company plans to hire about four employees to operate the facility.


Stratford Suites Inn is doing the construction work and also designed the motel, Kalin says.


Kalin and Grady last year sold two Solar World Estates extended-stay facilities here to DYI Properties LLC, a California-based investment group. One of those is a 93-unit complex in Airway Heights, and the other is a 32-unit facility in North Spokane.