
Patil operated the Brooklyn property and will manage the Independence property as well. He grew up in Mayfield Heights and returned to the area after graduating from the Cornell Hotel School in 2009 and spending several years in hotel brokerage in Denver. Patil said once Cloverleaf’s Independence hotel goes in, it will pursue additional development opportunities in the region. Success of each property depends on how much local business it captures although they may benefit from some overflow when the downtown hotels are fully occupied. They’re not a budget facility at all,” Sangree said. David Sangree, president of Lakewood-based Hotel & Leisure Advisors, said Hilton is looking to fill a level between its Homewood Suites upscale extend-stay properties and its Hampton Inn properties. When reached by Crain’s, Alpesh Patel, who operates Sunshine with Mina Patel, said he was in a business meeting and could not discuss his plans for the Middleburg Heights property. It consists of 111 suites and will bring about 30 additional jobs to the suburb, according to Charles Bichara, Middleburg Heights’ economic development director.

Inc., which has operated the Hampton Inn, 5675 Emerald Court in Mentor, for the past 20 years. Meantime, the Middleburg Heights project is going in at 7355 Engle Road and is being developed by Mentor-based Sunshine Co. He focused on the Independence site because of what he views as “development neglect” of the suburb’s lodging market since 2002, with the exception of a Springhill Suites that another group is constructing on the east side of I-77. Patil headed an investor group that operated and last year sold a Hampton Inn in Brooklyn. The hotel features an “oasis”-style lobby area, fitness center and a saline pool. The suites include kitchenettes and a folding wall that can separate the bedroom from the suite’s couch and work area.

Patil said Home2 Suites are designed to provide economical, casual accommodations for guests staying 30 days or longer, or a single day. The Patriot’s Way site adjoins a parcel owned by the city of Independence that the city is working to develop as a mixed-use project, Patil noted, which may also benefit the limited-service, extended-stay hotel. Make yourself at home in one of the 91 guestrooms, featuring kitchens with full-sized. “We’ll be only the second hotel on the west side of Interstate 77 in Independence and look to finish by the fall of 2016,” Patil said in an interview. Construction workers are putting in the third of four floors for the Independence Home2 Suites on a site on Patriot’s Way that is being developed by Cloverleaf Partners LLC, a Gates Mills-based investor group led by Ameet Patil. Locally based hotel operators are developing both hotels, which cost more than $6 million each to build. Our hotel in Independence, Ohio offers two-room suites, on-site dining, versatile event spaces and more. Two more outposts for Home2 Suites by Hilton extended-stay hotels are under construction, one in Independence and the other in Middleburg Heights. Book your stay at Embassy Suites Cleveland Rockside.
