There may be a hotel in Huntley’s future after all. If a proposal now before the village board actually happens, it may bring a new roadway to the village along with it.
After several years of hotel developers saying no to Huntley marketing efforts, one proposal for a Hampton Inn and Suites was put on the village’s agenda at a village board meeting on September 26. It is proposed at a site in the central part of the village on a parcel never before mentioned as a possibility for a hotel. According to village board documents, the tentative site is the southeast corner of Kreutzer Road and the future extension of Regency Parkway near the Regency Square commercial section of the village.
At an initial conceptual review meeting on September 26, village trustees gave positive feedback to the proposal. The next step for the petitioner is to proceed in the formal review process through the village’s Plan Commission and Village Board. The board authorized staff to enter into negotiations for a Business Development Agreement. No announcements have been made regarding dates for events in this process.
“The village has been considering extending Regency Parkway for a long time,” said Charles Nordman, director of development activities for Huntley.
“This proposal accelerates the road extension idea.” If this project is ever approved and completed, it would bring another benefit, a short cut route into downtown and the north side of Huntley from Sun City. It would connect the Farm Hill Road entrance to and from Sun City with Kreutzer Road, which connects Main Street on the north and Huntley Road on the east.
The proposed hotel would have 90 rooms (27 of them suites), a conference room, indoor pool, fitness center, complementary Wi-Fi, and free hot breakfasts. It would be located about one block west of Route 47, at a point where Kreutzer Road curves from an east-west route to north-south.
The project also includes a possible second Home2 Suites hotel at the same site eventually. The complex is projected to generate $457,000 in annual revenue for the village in taxes and fees. The Home2Suites may include two electric car-charging stations and will be a 90-room, extended stay hotel facility.
This $13 million project is tentatively scheduled to begin construction in the spring of 2020 and open in the summer of 2021.
For several years prior to this announcement, village officials said previous discussions with hotel developers went nowhere because developers said there hasn’t been enough occupancy rates at hotels in the Chicago northwest suburban area in recent years. Many Sun Citians, however, have voiced support for a hotel in Huntley. They say a hotel is needed to house extended family members of senior residents here, whose homes are not large enough to house visitors who often must rent rooms at hotels in other communities during family events.
The closest hotel to Sun City now is located in Algonquin, about 6-7 miles east next to Jacobs High School.
