A hotel at the intersection of Ogletown Road and Library Avenue has been temporarily delayed as the Delaware Department of Transportation goes over plans for the site.
The Newark Post reported the delay that was in evidence when one of the seasonal Halloween store chains moved into the vacant building that formerly housed a Newark Toyota showroom and Danneman Fabrics.
The store would be gone by early November and leave the site ready for demolition and construction. Halloween stores are a boon to shopping centers with vacant retail space.
The Danneman family is developing the site on one of Newark’s busiest corners into a hotel and restaurant property.
The site is adjacent to the Aetna fire station, near CSX railroad tracks and across the street from the Ogletown Post Office and the Hudson State Service Center and Wawa. All draw a large amount of traffic.
Library Avenue also connects to Newark’s auto row on Cleveland Avenue and the Capitol Trail-Kirkwood Highway artery.
The Danneman family is developing the site on one of Newark’s busiest corners into a hotel and restaurant property that would house a five-story Springhill Suites by Marriott.
The Newark City Council earlier approved the project, despite concerns over parking, noise in the area that guests would face and pedestrian access from the hotel to Newark’s thriving Main Street.
The hotel would do well on weekends with parent and university events. The Main Street area has only one motel property.
However, the Newark-Christiana area has seen an upturn in construction in the hotel business, with hundreds of additional rooms coming on the market in recent years.
Developer George Danneman told the Post that he expects the delay to be temporary. DelDOT rarely, if ever, rejects projects that have received local approval.
