River Prairie Hotel Announced

Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Tom Giffey, Managing Editor, VolumeOne

The "main street" in Altoona's River Prairie Town Center.

Construction will start this spring on a 120-room motel in the northwest portion of Altoona's River Prairie development, the city and the developer announced recently. The 90,000-square-foot Staybridge Suite is one of the biggest elements announced to-date for the quadrant, which city leaders hope grows into a new "front porch" for Altoona, including commercial, residential, and public development. The motel will be aimed at upscale, extended-stay guests, developer Thomas Larson of Larson Companies said in a press release. 

A conceptual drawing of the River Prairie northwest quadrant.

 The new hotel will be part of the northwest quadrant, see the upper right of this image, between Hwy 53 and the river.

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