La Quinta Inn on the horizon for city visitors

It’s been 66 years since Maricopa had a hotel to call its own. But that will change sometime in early 2021.

Construction continues on the La Quinta Inn, a four-story, 89-room hotel on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard adjacent to Copper Sky.

On a mid-November tour, as workers buzzed about the site, owner Andy Bhakta gave an update on construction, pointing out areas of the hotel that will be transformed into a lobby, meeting space and an exercise room. The hotel will have two elevators.

Bhakta also showed an indoor pool taking shape in a space that will feature huge, roll-up doors that open onto a patio with a fire pit.

The hotel, which represents a $10 million capital investment, is expected to employ at least 20 workers, Bhakta said.

Bhakta owns La Quinta franchises in the Northern Arizona towns of Holbrook and Williams.

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This story appears in the December issue of InMaricopa magazine.