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First Of Big Hotel Complex's Rooms Opens

Fairfield Inn Welcomes Visitors At Marriott Place

POSTED: 12:26 pm EST February 3, 2010
UPDATED: 1:31 pm EST February 3, 2010

One of the hotels that helped draw the Super Bowl to Indianapolis in 2012 opened Wednesday.

The Fairfield Inn and Suites on the new Marriott campus downtown is ready for business, 6News' Julie Pursley reported.

The hotel is the first of four hotels to open in the Marriott complex. It's on the same site as a former Courtyard by Marriott facility.

"The only thing that is existing (from the old building) is pretty much the shell of the building," said Kim Meyerholtz, Fairfield general manager.

Everything inside, including 168 rooms and 34 suites, is all new. A high-rise luxury hotel next door, JW Marriott, is still under construction and will open in 2011, a year before Indianapolis hosts the Super Bowl.

"We do have rooms committed currently for Super Bowl," Meyerholtz said. "We're excited about that."

Three hotels on the site, the Fairfield, SpringHill Suites and Courtyard by Marriott, have bookings for this year's Final Four.

SpringHill and Courtyard by Marriott are set to open within the next couple of weeks.

"We'll have two different price points, and we're really going to speak to two different guests," Meyerholtz said.

"The business traveler, leisure on the weekend and those that need a little more room … stay in the suite side," said Michael Kauffeld, general manager of the Courtyard. "We have room for families on both sides."

A T.G.I. Friday's restaurant connected to the hotels is also expected to be a draw for families and sports fans.

"We've been on this site for over 30 years, so people have been knocking on our doors for the last few weeks … to say, 'When are you opening?'" said John Randall, of White Lodging.

Friday's reopened Wednesday after completing millions of dollars of renovations.

The four new hotels cost about $450 million and have more than 1,600 rooms.
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