Microtel on Schedule for March Opening; Provance Named Manager

Ron Wilshire

Ron Wilshire

Published January 6, 2017 6:00 am
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MONROE TOWNSHIP, Pa. (EYT) — Construction on the new 68-room Microtel is on schedule. It is expected to open in March and already has a hotel general manager.

“We have about two months of work yet to get completely finished and ready to go,” said Trinity Point Manager Tim Reddinger.  “We’re at the stage of dry walling. We’re at the third floor and working our way down.”

The Microtel Inn & Suites — which is located within Trinity Point at Exit 62 of I-80 overlooking State Route 68 and I-80 next to Primary Health Network and The Barnes Center at Clarion University — is expected to add about 20 jobs to the Clarion community. The sixty-eight-room hotel will offer guests ten singles, 46 doubles, and 12 suites.

The search is still on for a national restaurant to be built near the hotel on a pad designed to accommodate any of the likely tenants.

“There are ongoing discussions,” said Reddinger.  “A lot of the businesses are redoing their business model.  Because of elections, everybody is changing his or her business model.  I am definitely looking for mostly national restaurants.  I would also talk with local individuals.  We are going to work until we get a national chain restaurant.”

Reddinger also said Microtel will offer hot breakfasts, a boardroom which seats 12, a lobby, a fitness room, business stations, free Wi-Fi, and a market shop.  Rooms will feature expanded cable television, 42” flat-screen televisions, and upgraded bedding.

A swimming pool may also be included at a later date.

Although Tim Reddinger added, “Probably not right away — we’re going to do a pavilion. The individual pool is plumbed and ready to go, but we’re going to see if it’s something that is needed.”

Provance Ashley Provance is the hotel general manager, now working at the Trinity Point Offices in the Barnes Center.  Provance comes to Microtel after serving at the Park Inn as Rooms Division Manager in charge of front desk and housekeeping.

“I’m from the Pittsburgh area. I started out going to Ohio State and finished at Robert Morris University with a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership,” said Provance. 

“I’ve been dealing with customer service for probably six years now.  I worked at Disneyworld, Columbus Zoo, Kennywood, and a lot of local entertainment attractions until I moved over to the hotel side of things.  It kind of just clicked.  It’s not something I ever expected to do.   I established the groundwork with my training, and here I am. It’s something I enjoy doing, and it takes a certain kind of person to work in hotels.  I like the fact that every day I come in (and) it’s something different.”

Ashley originally moved to the area with her husband, Bryan Provance, who is a teacher in the Redbank Valley School District.

“This will be the first time when I am general manager and running the entire hotel, and I am excited. I definitely feel that I have a good grip on things, and I’m ready for it to be opened,” said Provance.
 

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