Plan Calls for Offices, Hotels, Hospital

ONTARIO, CA-The Bates Co. of Monrovia has unveiled plans for 250,000 sf of office space, two hotels, a hospital and a medical office campus at a 40-acre development site at the Haven Avenue exit of Interstate 10. The office project will be a 10-story class A tower, along with a three-story parking structure, a 250-plus room Embassy Suites, a 200-plus room Springhill Suites, 100,000 sf of medical office buildings and a hospital of more than 200 beds.

The new project will be called Ontario Gateway and will be about a mile from Ontario International Airport. Bates has submitted its plan to the City of Ontario and hopes to start construction late this year.

The Bates Co. will build the medical offices and the office tower along with the parking structure. New street construction is expected to commence later this year and the office tower construction is expected to begin in mid-2007, with completion set for spring 2008. Office leasing will be handled by Carol Plowman and Paul Earnhart of Lee & Associates.