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[rebelboi]

Any hotel on I-20 is a need. But, if you don't want them in Ruston, we'll keep them staying in We$t Monroe Thomas Road area with all the re$taurant dollar$ being $pent.

WM is going to have more hotels in that one area than all of Monroe combined

[RhythmDawg]

The most recent analysis projects that Ruston can support 3 more hotels. One of them will be "high end."

[JuBru]

The most recent analysis projects that Ruston can support 3 more hotels. One of them will be "high end."

Thanks.

[faninmonroe]

Daily Press is legit.....love that damn place. Bennie Jr. hit a grand slam with the one on 165.....and it gets better every time I go there.

Clean facilities, friendly staff, good food, good layout....everything you want or need for gas, a quick lunch, snacks for the kids. It will be a hit in Ruston.

"Daily Press" is the name. Great concept and has been very popular over here. He (Bennie Evans) is still working to perfect the concept, but it works pretty good now. Soups, salads, sandwiches, etc.. I think it will be a hit in Ruston.

[CutiePie72]

Dare I ask where it will be, or is that a secret?

[TechAlum05]

A large corporation is looking in Ruston to put a specialty grocery store...think Mac's Fresh Market.

There's a couple other things that I can't divulge yet, but you may have heard the rumors...they're out there. Can't think about doing business in Ruston without rumors getting out. Another rumor is that a popular name brand hotel in town may lose their franchise license. There is already a group going after it.

I read through the latest UL System Board meeting documents, and a land swap was mentioned between Louisiana Tech and a group called Polestar Development. Tech would get a piece of property in the middle of the planned enterprise Campus and a chunk of cash in exchange for a 6-acre tract of land on California Avenue (US Highway 80) which Tech currently owns. Polestar Development's name has been attached to numerous Wal-Mart grocery stores, including the proposed ones in Monroe & West Monroe. I wonder if Polestar would develop the 6-acre piece of land on California Avenue into a new Wal-Mart Grocery Store in Ruston.

[RhythmDawg]

I read through the latest UL System Board meeting documents, and a land swap was mentioned between Louisiana Tech and a group called Polestar Development. Tech would get a piece of property in the middle of the planned enterprise Campus and a chunk of cash in exchange for a 6-acre tract of land on California Avenue (US Highway 80) which Tech currently owns. Polestar Development's name has been attached to numerous Wal-Mart grocery stores, including the proposed ones in Monroe & West Monroe. I wonder if Polestar would develop the 6-acre piece of land on California Avenue into a new Wal-Mart Grocery Store in Ruston.

You are heading in the right direction for one of two possibilities.

[RhythmDawg]

Dare I ask where it will be, or is that a secret?

The I20/Cooktown Rd corner next to where Dowlings is located.

[Crowdaddy]

Does any one know what's going in on the old ramada inn service road property? I noticed some ground work being done.

[maverick]

The most recent analysis projects that Ruston can support 3 more hotels. One of them will be "high end."

"High end" or "high end compared to the others in Ruston?"

[RhythmDawg]

Hilton brand

[SpaceDawg]

Hilton brand

So Hilton brand hotels are Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, Doubletree, Hilton, Waldorf Astoria, Conrad, Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, and Embassy Suites.

Pick one, I guess. Ruston already has a Hampton. Waldorf and Conrad are way too high end for Ruston. Hilton is probably out of the question as well even though Lafayette (with its size) has one.

Of the remaining choices, my preferences would be Embassy Suites or Doubletree. I haven't stayed in a Homewood Suites or Home2 Suites to have an opinion on them.

Hilton Garden Inns are very "cookie cutter". Always clean but not really my preference, and I've stayed in a bunch of them.

If I had to guess though, I'd say it would be the Garden Inn. That seems to be the next "step up" over Hamptons.

[RhythmDawg]

If I had to guess though, I'd say it would be the Garden Inn. That seems to be the next "step up" over Hamptons.

Yep

[ChuckK3]

Yep

That's very good news if it is to be a Hilton Garden Inn.

[rebelboi]

drove by the frontage road where that old hotel that got torn down and there was a sign w/ a picture of an Anytime Fitness; surely they aren't going to use all that land to build one on