HADLEY — A hotelier who owns several hotels in the region is pitching plans for a three-story, 96-room hotel next to Home Depot along the town’s busy Route 9 commercial strip.
The Planning Board is expected to hear plans for the 27,000-square-foot structure that will also include a fitness center and a pool.
The listed manager of the firm planning the hotel — Russell Street Hospitality LLC — is Shardool S. Parmar, according to state records.
Parmar is also president of Pioneer Valley Hotel Group, Inc., records show, which operates the Hampton Inn and Comfort Inn in Hadley, and the Holiday Inn Express in Ludow and La Quinta Inn & Suites in Springfield. The group also operates the Hadley Farm Meeting House off of Route 9 in Hadley. Six years ago, the hotel group’s effort to build a 112-room hotel and parking garage in downtown Northampton failed.
The meeting Tuesday starts at 7 p.m. in the main floor meeting room of the Hadley Senior Community Center at Hooker School, 46 Middle St.
The board will consider approving the project’s site plan. The parcel also falls in an aquifer protection district, which gives the land an extra level of protection and also requires another permit from the board, said William Dwyer, Planning Board clerk.
He said the panel will decide whether to move forward with the project once the developer addresses questions regarding parking, stormwater control, erosion control, design and traffic. Dwyer said projects such as this typically require more than one meeting before the board.
“We’ll either request more information or proceed to a vote,” he said of Tuesday’s meeting.
If the board grants the necessary permits, there will be a 20-day appeal period after which the developer can apply for a building permit, Dwyer said. The land doesn’t require rezoning because it is already zoned for business use, he said.
Dwyer said depending on whether wetlands are found on the site, the project may also have to gain approval from the town’s Conservation Commission.
Renderings of the structure were not available Monday. Dwyer said the board doesn’t require upon application details on estimated completion times or economic impact.
Neither Parmar nor his attorney Paul Nicolai could be reached Monday.
Contact Jack Suntrup at jsuntrup@gazettenet.com.