Cambria Suites Caps $250M Southpointe II

CANONSBURG, PA-Horizon Hospitality LLC has been approved as a licensed franchisee to develop a five-story Cambria Suites hotel of approximately 130 rooms in the Southpointe II mixed-use project under way in Cecil Township. The hotel developer is an affiliate of locally based Horizon Properties Group LLC, which completed the 600-acre Southpointe in 2000 and is now rounding out development of the adjacent 217-acre parcel.

Michael Swisher, a Horizon principal, tells GlobeSt.com the Southpointe II construction cost is approximately $250 million. It encompasses one million sf of office; 170 single-family attached and detached residences, and approximately 200 multifamily units within the 800,000-sf Southpointe Town Center. The town center contains 500,000 sf of retail, and Horizon is joint-venturing that portion with Peoria, IL-based Cullinan Properties. Swisher says retail leasing is under way, but declines to name tenants now.

Cambria Suites is the new lifestyle brand of Silver Spring, MD-based Choice Hotels, and this will mark the brand’s entry into the Greater Pittsburgh market. Swisher says the construction cost is approximately $12 million.