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Hopi Nation Readies Next Stage of $110M Plan

TUBA CITY, AZ-By week's end, Moenkopi Development will have design-build bids in hand for a 100-room hotel and conference center. In May, a $6-million travel center will open.

By John McCloud | Updated on April 14, 2008

TUBA CITY, AZ-A nonprofit development corporation serving the Hopi Nation will begin accepting design-build bids in response to a request for proposals for a multimillion-dollar hotel and conference center for its $110-million mixed-use development. Work is wrapping up on a $6-million retail center, which is set to open May 2.

The hotel and retail center are the second and third stages of a 72-acre development in the village of Moenkopi along Arizona Route 264 across US Highway 160 from Tuba City. The locally based Moenkopi Development Corp. completed the first phase, a $5.3-million wastewater treatment plant, last year and quickly began construction on Tuuvi Travel Center, a 12-acre project that will include a 9,000-sf Express Stop convenience store, 16-pump gas station, car wash, four retail shops leased to Native American crafts dealers, a Taco Del Mar food franchise and a tribal-run cafe.

The travel center was financed with grants of $1 million from HUD and $200,000 from the US Department of Agriculture along with a $4.8-million loan from Birmingham, AL-based Compass Bank. It was named for a 19th century Hopi leader whose name was distorted as Tuba in the nearby town.

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