A new hotel-development company here called JGDR LLC is developing a 71-unit Comfort Inn hotel in the Liberty Lake area.


Site work for the project started a few months ago, and the entire three-story structure is expected to be completed and open in September, says Joe Mathis, a partner in the company.


The $2.5 million structure is being erected at the southwest corner of Knox Avenue and Madson Road, just west of a new Accra-Fab Inc. facility that also currently is under construction, and will be visible from Interstate 90.


JGDR initially will be the franchise operator of the Comfort Inn, but Mathis says the partners in that venture eventually might form a separate company to manage the hotel. He expects to hire about 20 employees to staff the hotel.


R. Redding Construction Co., of Spokane, is the general contractor for the project. That companys principals, brothers Don Redding and Gary Redding, also are partners in JGDR. A fourth partner in JGDR is Mathis grandson, Ryan Wold, of Spokane.


Architect Marvin Moore, of Spokane, designed the hotel.


The Comfort Inn is the second hotel project that Mathis and the Reddings have developed together. Through a separate company, called Red Mat LLC, they developed a 60-unit Microtel Inn at the Airway Business Centre in Airway Heights, which opened about a year ago.