Work has begun on the interior of Arborg’s newest hotel in the Arborg Business Park, and the developers are anticipating they’ll be able to take advance bookings by the summer.
Steel Creek Developers, a family-owned hotel development company, is building a 30-suite facility called the Blue Crescent Hotel along Highway 68. The hotel will have an indoor pool, water slide, fitness room and guest laundry room among other features.
Trevor Rempel, the company’s vice president of sales & marketing, said construction is moving along and the building envelope has been completed with the thermal wrap and the windows installed.
“Some of the siding materials are already on site and they’ll start working on the exterior as soon as things warm up and dry up around the building,” said Rempel. “They’ve been going strong inside. The framing inside is close to completion and they’ve started drywalling on the third floor and taping and mudding on the second floor.”
The company’s hotels in other parts of the province, such as the Blue Crescent Hotel in Carman, have a unique split-room configuration that allows privacy for families or groups. That design, in which a bathroom is placed in the middle of a suite, creating two separate sleeping/socializing areas with their own TVs, will be incorporated into the Arborg Blue Crescent.
There will be a variety of suites to choose from including singles, doubles, family rooms with two sets of the bunkbeds, king/queen executive and a two-bedroom kitchenette.
“We’ve got family rooms, which is a split-room design with two sets of bunkbeds that can sleep four kids. On the other side of the bathroom, we’ve got a queen bed. This is one of the most popular rooms in our other hotels,” said Rempel. “Another popular room is our kitchenette suite that’s like a two-bedroom apartment. It has dual vanities, a big living room area with a queen pull-out sofa so you can put more people in there, a kitchen sink and a full-sized fridge. This suite is ideal for hockey tournaments or a bridal party preparing in the morning.”
Other hotel features include a fitness room, meeting room that can be booked by the general public for birthday parties or other events, a continental breakfast and breakfast room, paved parking, pet friendly policy and a coin-operated laundry room for guests
In addition to hotels, Steel Creek also builds restaurants (Tim Hortons in Altona) and mixed-use buildings featuring rental apartments and hotel suites (Melita, Souris and Grenfell, Saskatchewan).
Curiosity has been growing about the Arborg hotel, with people asking the company on Facebook whether there will be a pool.
“The hotel will definitely have a pool and a water slide. The pool portion of the building has not been built yet. Once the ground thaws, we can build the foundation for the pool area on the northwest side of the hotel and start building the pool and water-slide wing,” said Rempel. “There will be lots of big windows and it will be lit up at night. You won’t be able to drive by and miss that there’s a pool and water slide in the Arborg Blue Crescent.”
Rempel said the company is anticipating having the hotel open before Christmas, and that by summer they’ll be able to accept advance bookings.
For more information about Steel Creek Developers and its projects, visit www.steelcreekdevelopers.ca
