http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...-popular-views
Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
Selkirk set to boast new hotel
Among major new tenants in growing power centre
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE By: Murray McNeill
Posted: 10/28/2013 1:00 AM
Quote:
Another hotel chain is about to enter the Manitoba market.
Canalta Hotels, a 35-year-old, family-owned company that operates 38 hotels in Alberta and Saskatchewan, has a new 84-room hotel under construction in the Selkirk Crossing retail power centre on the western outskirts of Selkirk.
A spokesman for the power centre's developer -- Winnipeg's Shindico Realty Inc. -- said the hotel is scheduled to open next summer and is Canalta's first in Manitoba.
But others could soon follow.
"We're working with them on (finding) other locations in Manitoba," John Pearson, a broker with Shindico, said in an interview. "They're very interested in Manitoba."
Pearson wouldn't say if Canalta is limiting its search to rural centres, or if it's also looking for development sites in Winnipeg. A spokesman for the company, which also operates hotels under the Super 8, Travelodge and Ramada Inn & Suites banners, was unavailable for comment.
Canalta isn't the only major new tenant coming to Selkirk Crossing. Real Canadian Superstore finally appears close to starting work on its long-awaited big-box grocery store, which had been in the works since before the last global recession.
"We've been advised it will be starting in the near future," Pearson said, noting the Superstore property is already serviced and ready for development.
|